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Future of Music
Jul. 27th, 2005 04:51 pmMy mom sent me a link to a BBC Article: Downloading Myths Challenged
The consensus that folks who download illegally also spent more money legally has been stated from the start, although the media still gives more space to the record companies. In other recent news (Guardian example - or Google for many more links), the record companies have decided legal downloads make more money than anything else they could do. Also, an article in the Berklee alumni magazine recently stated that the record companies were not "the industry," and have done much to turn a service-based industry into a product-based one, at the expense of the backbone of the largest part of the industry - the artists (which is an about-face from an article a year or two prior that took the record company's stance.)
The consensus that folks who download illegally also spent more money legally has been stated from the start, although the media still gives more space to the record companies. In other recent news (Guardian example - or Google for many more links), the record companies have decided legal downloads make more money than anything else they could do. Also, an article in the Berklee alumni magazine recently stated that the record companies were not "the industry," and have done much to turn a service-based industry into a product-based one, at the expense of the backbone of the largest part of the industry - the artists (which is an about-face from an article a year or two prior that took the record company's stance.)
