P2P Calls in Air Strikes
Published March 28, 2003
In any event, the weight of the third party objective studies of this question leans toward the answer that, on balance, P2P file sharing promotes CD sales more than it displaces them. For example, a May 2002 Jupiter Research Study2 found that file sharing boosted sales more than it displaces them and concluded that music sellers should devote their resources to online marketing and distribution, rather than trying to eradicate the phantom threat of file sharing. Similarly, an August 2002 Forrester Research report3 found that digital music lovers, those who downloaded the most, increased their CD purchases on a net basis as a result of exposure to new music. Similarly, a new TEMPO study4 reports that about 40 million Americans have downloaded a music file in the past month, and that the vast majority of this music-loving population (about three-quarters) reported that their motivation for downloading music files was to sample music before making a CD purchase. Even the most pessimistic study of P2P file sharing5, conducted by University of Texas at Dallas Professor Stan Liebowitz, reported that the evidence to date was inconclusive, and that at most P2P file sharing might displace about 20 percent of CD sales at some time in the future. As my testimony will later detail, that shortfall, if it indeed occurs, can be more than made up for by sales of a variety of new online services and physical products.
In any event, the impact of P2P file sharing on musical artists may well be differentiated. Internet network expert Tim O'Reilly has written that, "Piracy is a kind of progressive taxation, which may shave a few percentage points off the sales of well-known artists (and I say "may" because even that point is not proven) in exchange for massive benefits to the far greater number for whom exposure may lead to increased revenues.... Lowering the barriers to entry in distribution, and the continuous availability of the entire catalog rather than just the most popular works, is good for artists, since it gives them a chance to build their own reputation and visibility, working with entrepreneurs of the new medium who will be the publishers and distributors of tomorrow."6
This perspective has significant support in the artists' community. For example, in a February 2, 2003 Los Angeles Times Op-Ed singer-songwriter Janis Ian wrote, "The Internet is the only outlet for many artists to be heard by an audience bigger than whoever shows up at a local coffeehouse. The Internet allows people like me to gain new fans; if only 10 percent of those downloading my music buy my music or come to my shows, I've just gained enough fans to fill Carnegie Hall twice over."7 And John Snyder, the President of Artist House
Records, a Board member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), and a 32-time Grammy nominee, recently wrote, 'If your music is not being downloaded, then you're in trouble. If you can't give it away, you certainly can't sell it.... I would argue that the future of music is multimedia, the future of multimedia is DVD, and the future of music companies is software. In five years, record labels will be software companies and I don't think they know that yet. The music business will be saved by someone from the software business who can impose a new business model on music assets."8 That business model is arriving in many forms. For example, the partnership formed between Cornerband.com and Sharman Networks is now using the Kazaa software as a means of promoting new bands from throughout the United States and distributing their music to software users.
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this was great i am happy to see that others are benifiting to open mindness
of new technologies/ and sad to see that the world is all about price gouging/ worries of hollywood suicide and most inportant greed. I believe point in case
as a consumer of movies and music and will come straight out and say it as no one else will -fear of are goverment I guess.
1. movies-are so many experience good and bad /sad and happy -and so many experinces have been held on the cinimatic screen exploited/ and life situations to catastrophies of floods/earthquakes to aliens and how we view them. theaters are great experinces
but some times the translation is lost
and can only be gained by home expirence . thanks to technolgy we have that choice. are own tiny theater -surround
speakers /flat screen tv's -can you accually blame people for not wanting to sit in a theatre were some lady smells and has a crying baby. also might i add
that downloading of a movie is a differn't experiance all together-you have this wierd tech-feeling you get that we accually have moved into the future 2004. That u can not belive that u are accually watching this on a computer and quite an overwellming feeling just ask the executives of the movie industry /when they wanted to know exactly what was going on with the p2p
and one them said ooh let me show u and downloaded the matrix revolutions. so point in case no matter if u are watching it on a hollywood screen or
a computer screen-if u like what u watched -its most likly going to influince you to purchase it on dvd.
(mundanity i love it.)
1. big fish-saw in theatre -bought it on dvd
2. finding nemo-down·load·ed-bought it on dvd
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Music it enriches are lives its one thing everyone agrees on -just not the form/ rap/hip-hop/ and boy bands and fake corporation meglaconglomerates
are now choosing the way we are to listen to music/ and how we are to view
who's hot and who's not. show's like american idol that cuts people's dreams and hopes down to size that does not fit the profile in fashion/and music style are outcasted. music should not be this way/ 2004 music terms are lets take the-sex out /no drugs/ hay what about just the rock and we can sell it as is.
nope it just doen't happen that way . some of the best groups like the sex-pistols were wacked out of their minds and made the best music. can u
imagine what john lennon would have been
like without drugs. the groups that no
one will hear such as revolver exept in small circles. here's my biggest point I own 3000 cd's used to have 2000 tapes
but traded them in for cd's. but still downloaded music to hear the new upcoming bands that no one wanted u to hear too controversial i guess. And help
people to experince music that they would not open up to. and vice versa
I have helped a 50 year old man to gain music back that his ex-threw out and thought he would never hear ever again.
Some of this music i downloaded I thought was good but not good enough to buy-as the letter to senator murry states just samplings never albums.
in a couple of cases was given full albums/ but one was the new mattalica and it just sucked sooooo bad that i gave it away. the other a new anthrax album-which i kept but plan to buy or get it at a pawn shop for the cover art .
and info in the jacket. so bottom line
music is music whatever the jonra. i have been buying cd's so long and also enjoy finding groups on the net like maroon 5 /overkill and d.r.i / groups not many listen too. last point -distrubution of these kind of music
can be bought but are hard to find it's either bidding on ebay for em-or special order. just try and find scars of the crucifix -from deicide not a liked group but hay someone listens to it.
thanks for the time/ viva la p2p controversy and the history that is made.