Contrary to claims made by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has launched a campaign of lawsuits against peer-to-peer (P2P) network users and blamed them for plunging sales, unlicensed downloading and Internet file-sharing of copyrighted music has no effect on CD sales, according to researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero,” the report stated.
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P2P No Showstopper for Music Sales
Posted by: Jay Lyman March 30, 2004 10:38 AMContrary to claims made by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has launched a campaign of lawsuits against peer-to-peer (P2P) network users and blamed them for plunging sales, unlicensed downloading and Internet file-sharing of copyrighted music has no effect on CD sales, according to researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero,” the report stated.