[lbo-talk] File swapping has 'zero effect'

Todd Archer todda39 at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 2 16:50:03 PST 2004


[Wheeeee!!! Pass the ammo!! :{)> ]

p2pnet.net News:- Online file sharing is not responsible for the huge sales losses the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and other Big Music trade organizations constantly report.

In fact, "Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero, despite rather precise estimates," say Felix Oberholzer (Harvard Business School) and Koleman Strumpf (UNC Chapel Hill) in their empirical analysis The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales.

http://p2pnet.net/story/1102

Todd

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