filesharing does not harm legitimate cd sales

[kronas]

two university research groups have shown evidence to suggest the RIAA's crusade against p2p users is not warrented.

the harvard business school, and north carolina university have both concluded that sales do affect 'niche' artists, but overall the affect on the bigger artists showed no drop in sales despite huge amounts of file swapping occouring during a 17 week period in which sales vs downloads were measured.

source: yahoo.com

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...4300_2004mar29

the only draw back is there will be some who dont buy because its free.

others buy after downloading.........

[Xaccers]

Saw that on the Reg.
Something like you need 5000 downloads for one CD not to be bought, and its the low end of sales that suffer, people who only sell 36,000 or less type thing.
At the higher end, for every 150 downloads you actually get an extra sale!