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Re: [microsound] Whitney Spears



No its not. Why bother so much what Eminem and his management & record company are crying about. I certainly dont care about them ;=)

They'll sell CD:s anyway.

The big losers are the independents who are not generally availabe in every record store or supermarket. Here it is to much trouble finding and ordering a record compared to just downloading it (and make some greedy filsharingservice owner happy).

I dont know if all independents are saying this but I have heard it from several. They are being hurt. For real. Microsound is probably to small a niche or is Fennesz, Cascone & Co. also available on Kazaa??

Just now there was another newsitem on the radio about the decline in record sales (which may have just as much to do with the declining economy as with piracy) but the inteviews in the record stores all went: "No, I am not against downloading and I and all my friends can copy CD:s but I just couldnt find this record online so I had to buy it..."

>> I personally don't care if the vast majority of performers who are regularly
>> in the top 10 lose some sales from various forms of piracy.
>
>but it is mostly the record labels crying bloody murder about this...
>
>anyway, it's bad math to calculate the loss of sales by stating that one mp3
>file being traded represents the loss of one CD sale...this is (I think) how
>they determine the dollar amount...there is just too much other information
>being left out of that equation like: did that person go out and buy the CD
>after hearing a track? did they already own a copy of the CD? had they
>already owned a copy of the release on vinyl, and only liking one or two
>tracks on it download those songs instead of buying it on CD? etc... 
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