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Originally Posted by andygrif
A week argument in my opinion. You can 'discover' far more diverse artists and recordings through the Amazon website than you can through something like Kazaa - the reason being that Amazon suggests artists you might like based on your browsing and buying habits - wheras with Kazaa you are searching for something specifc. Granted if you searched for an artist you knew and found some tracks you liked but didn't own you might go and buy the album they were from - but again you could do the same search on Amazon, hear preview clips and decide to buy it without denying the artist you like of what is due to them.
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Actually, kazza etc have been shown to help boost the sales of CD's in many cases.
The majority of people who use P2P are not the sort of people who will go out and buy CD's anyway.
The money assumed to be lost through P2P assumes that every download is a lost sale, when the majority are no-sales.
Some economists did indepth research into this, and came to the conclusion that if you assume every download is a lost sale, then a $6 a month tax on broadband connections in the US would cover this.
They also pointed out that the downturn in CD sales started to occur long before Napster ever came about.
Now, if we are correct in thinking that buying pirated CD's and DVD's from your local market helps fund terroism/prostitution/drugs smuggling (course other than terrorism, those are self financing industries) then using kazaa and downloading for free actually helps in the fight against those things by denying them funds
