Should Music Sharing Be Legal
For Music Sharing
1. Don’t want the whole CD * Sometimes a CD only has a few songs that are good * They are expensive
Artists are for music sharing * Many artists support file sharing.
Janis Ian -"The premise of all this ballyhoo is that the industry (and its artists) are being harmed by free downloading. Nonsense."
Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore -"Trying to control music sharing - by shutting down P2P sites or MP3 blogs or BitTorrent or whatever other technology comes along - is like trying to control an affair of the heart. Nothing will stop it."
Blur's Dave Rowntree -"I'm blisteringly in favour”; "You can't stop people exchanging any media over the internet"
Wilco's Jeff Tweedy -"If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us."; "I don't believe every download is a lost sale."; "I don't want potential fans to be blocked because the choice to check out our music becomes a financial decision for them." * “Some artists get good word of mouth when their music is traded.” (File Sharing: A Debate)
3. The hypotheses were then tested with the help of a regression model, in which the dependent variables were the number of CD albums and number of online/mobile music tracks that respondents estimated they had purchased in 2005. According to the regression results, the authors were unable to find direct evidence for the hypothesis that “file sharing is negatively associated with music purchases in Canada”. Quite the contrary, they found “(…) a positive and statistically significant relationship between the number of music tracks downloaded via P2P networks and the number of CDs purchased. (…) For an increase in the average number of P2P downloads per month of 1, the number of CD purchases per year will increase by 0.44.” (Andersen and Frenz 2007: 27). However, in the later version the results were modified. They now argued that the sampling and substitution effect “(…) ‘cancel’ one another out, leading
1. Don’t want the whole CD * Sometimes a CD only has a few songs that are good * They are expensive
Artists are for music sharing * Many artists support file sharing.
Janis Ian -"The premise of all this ballyhoo is that the industry (and its artists) are being harmed by free downloading. Nonsense."
Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore -"Trying to control music sharing - by shutting down P2P sites or MP3 blogs or BitTorrent or whatever other technology comes along - is like trying to control an affair of the heart. Nothing will stop it."
Blur's Dave Rowntree -"I'm blisteringly in favour”; "You can't stop people exchanging any media over the internet"
Wilco's Jeff Tweedy -"If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us."; "I don't believe every download is a lost sale."; "I don't want potential fans to be blocked because the choice to check out our music becomes a financial decision for them." * “Some artists get good word of mouth when their music is traded.” (File Sharing: A Debate)
3. The hypotheses were then tested with the help of a regression model, in which the dependent variables were the number of CD albums and number of online/mobile music tracks that respondents estimated they had purchased in 2005. According to the regression results, the authors were unable to find direct evidence for the hypothesis that “file sharing is negatively associated with music purchases in Canada”. Quite the contrary, they found “(…) a positive and statistically significant relationship between the number of music tracks downloaded via P2P networks and the number of CDs purchased. (…) For an increase in the average number of P2P downloads per month of 1, the number of CD purchases per year will increase by 0.44.” (Andersen and Frenz 2007: 27). However, in the later version the results were modified. They now argued that the sampling and substitution effect “(…) ‘cancel’ one another out, leading