Filesharing

[zotz]

Now, according to this BBC article, US album sales rose 7% from the first half of last year to the first half of this year. Presumably this was achieved by the destruction of filesharing, right?

Errr . . . filesharing was destroyed last year, wasn't it? I mean, it can't just be the US economy having been in recession and now picking up again, can it?

Comments

[tephramancy.livejournal.com]

That 7% must be all the Britney Spears fans who were sued by the RIAA.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Oh, the economy is picking up? That's good to hear.

I mean, it's nice that there are new jobs. Pity they're all super-low-paying service jobs. In other words "Hey, you may have been laid off by the factory, but you can work at McDonald's!"

I guess it's sort of getting better, but it's still not so hot right now.

It's probably just that I sold my house and have been buying CDs again.

[incy.livejournal.com]

I think there arew a load of factors:
firstly people have more moeny
secondly the quality of music. it is possible that music has been very poor and there was no demand from the public to buy the stuff.
then you also have the fact that legal downloads are now avaible and the internet of the means of delivery must be very tempting and now that it can be done legally peopel will use it (which also puts pay to the theory put out by the RIAA and the liek that peopel will take music for free if they can over paying for it, after all anyone who pays for a download could get fidn a download for free. Hopefully also this will mean a slightly lighter touch on things like DRM, which annoy me and keep me buying physical media, becuase i do not want to be tied down hardware wise to some comapny.

[zbyszek.livejournal.com]

Was there not a similar announcement from ARIA (the Australian record industry) recently? As I recall they put a different spin on it, downplaying the rise in sales to maintain the party line that filesharing is about to cause the imminent death of recorded music, and so on..
The Ukranians are ace, by the way!