| Sales have dropped because.... 1) People can now sample the music online before buying.
2) You can buy individual songs now online instead of the whole CD, just to get one or two songs you like.
3) Because people can now sample music online before buying, they can find out if it's crap or not before they commit to buy it.
All of these add up to consumers can now make wise purchasing decisions on music. Which in turn actually affects the RIAA more as their sales have dropped because people are not buying as much crap music or whole CD's for one or two songs they like. But the folks at the RIAA would have you believe their music is great and that folks are pirating it instead of buying it. |
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| So downloading music from a P2P network can tell you that you don't like the CD. This would cause you to not purchase said CD and the record industry has a lost sale. Therefore P2P is hurting the music industry.  |
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| Yes and no. The fact that folks don't buy the CD, because they find out its crap music, then yes. But it doesn't hurt in the way the RIAA would have you believe, in that folks like the music and are pirating it instead of buying it. |
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| Yes, I agreee, if it's crap and people downloaded it from p2p they delete it... I read somewhere people are not keeping the songs they download anymore... if it's crap that's more likely to happen.. or they back it up... would be interesting to see what happens with Blank CD/DVD media this-and next year....
Personally, I can't wait for a portable dvd player that can play multple audio/video formats not just mp3s but dvd disc based not hard drive... 4.7 / 8.5gb is enough for lots of video/audio in the right formats (avi/mp3/mpeg/asf/wma/ogg/etc) |
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