The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis
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| Our estimates are inconsistent with claims that file sharing is the
| primary reason for the decline in music sales during our study period.
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http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JPE/journal/issues/v115n1/31618/brief/31618.abstract.html?erFrom=-2768404614279062069Guest
http://tinyurl.com/24hehz
What web 2.0 could teach Warner Music's Edgar Bronfman
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| Just imagine if all that open interoperability went away and we
| were back to the old days of closed APIs and closed systems.
| That's what DRM does.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=326
Yes! They Took the Bait! Music Industry Grumbles About Job's Vision of a DRM
Free Future
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| Just like Bill Gates took the bait complaining about Apple's
| recent ad campaign that portrays the PC as an overweight
| sickly virus ridden machine, again, with a hillarious cam
| strapped to it's head, Edgar Bronfman Jr. and the rest of
| the music industry just took the bait on DRM.
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http://thomashawk.com/2007/02/yes-they-took-bait-music-industry.html
It's worth mentioning that Bill Gates admitted that DRM is a pain and that
people should rip their CDs. And later came this:
Microsoft: We Like DRM
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| Steve Jobs wants the music business to drop restrictions for digital
| tunes. But Microsoft, which began competing head to head with Apple
| in the digital music business last fall, is happy with the way things
| are, says media exec Robbie Bach.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/08/zune-drm-itunes-tech-media-cx_df_0208bach.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2lrz3y
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