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BizRate Survey Reports CD Sales Not Hurting
BizRate.com is the latest company to offer statistics which show that people who download music for free still purchase music.
BizRate surveyed 16,000 online buyers and found that 97% of the respondents stated that online music downloads have not affected their music purchasing habits. Nearly one third of the respondents who are online shoppers stated that they download music online.
BizRate also points out that online sales of CD's are one of the fastest growing marketplaces online. They accounted for $1.35 billion in sales this year, which means the sale of entertainment (including music) is about 17 percent of all online sales revenue.
Does it matter that all of these respected companies are stating the same thing? That online promotion of music is not hurting the industry's sales and that it is one of the hottest areas in e-commerce now.
I for one certainly wonder if any judges in the U.S. Judicial System will realize this before making harsh decisions, which will directly affect the future of this booming e-commerce industry.
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milladrive
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Date: August 23, 2000 @ 7:08 PM
I think any judge who doesn't get it is probably sticking to the gumption that it's simply wrong to obtain something without paying for it, and rather than understand it and set up a working plan, they'd rather dream up imaginary lost earnings and try to put the kibosh on it.
If the RIAA weren't so passionate about putting an end to file-sharing apps, rather than working out an agreement with them, the future of digital trading wouldn't be so questionable.
All these polls, surveys, etc., are merely showing the obvious: exposure can only help sales. |
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Anonymous
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Date: August 24, 2000 @ 8:40 AM
Well, duh! Before MP3 came out there were only a few artists whose CD's I would puchase at retail because I felt assured that I would would like all the tunes on their CD. Now that I have a chance to hear more music by artists I would have never even considered buying from, I am buying more CD's than ever, my stereo speakers still whoop the pc's even with subwoofer. Maybe that'll change one day, but this year I am paying the music industry 4 times more than last! |
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Crack0rJack
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Date: August 24, 2000 @ 5:31 PM
has the RIAA ever shown proof that mp3s hurt record sales? all I ever hear about is the opposite. |
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Anonymous
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Date: August 24, 2000 @ 7:41 PM
From my experiences at many UC schools, very few people with computers and CD burners are buying CDs regularly now. I just see them buying stacks of CD-R's when they are on sale. I can understand why. Free, without being caught, always beats non-free! |
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killerevan
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Date: August 24, 2000 @ 7:56 PM
Why can't the big record labels just get the point. downloading music does not do crap. It's just another way to pass away the time. And the only thing th record company's should worry about is that they'll have to sell there Cd's at a reasonable cost (god forbid that ever happens) I'm just so sick of this crap. if you want the record company's to get the point boycott the hell out of them. Then we'll all be winners. huh? Don't buy anything over 15 dollars. |
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Anonymous
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Date: August 25, 2000 @ 3:21 AM
Under 15 bucks? Try 50 cents for a blank CD-R. Completely reasonable. Burn, baby, burn! Screw the RIAA and the screw those wimp-ass prositute artists. Get real fucking jobs. We are the new generation and we will never pay for music again. Why when you can get it for free? Welcome to the future. |
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Anonymous
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Date: August 25, 2000 @ 9:58 AM
(I'll ignore the pirate sentiment expressed above and say this anyway)
The Judge's job here is to decide if the laws are being broken. Whether Napster is helping or hurting the industry overall may well be irrelevant. The question for the Judge is "is Napster doing something against current laws?" They intepert and enforce laws, not business trends.
(it may well be that whether Napster is hurting profits is a key point in the law, I am not a copyright law expert, but my point stands.) |
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milladrive
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Date: August 25, 2000 @ 2:25 PM
New laws come from the legislature. The judicial system is part of the legislature. Judges make the decisions in the judicial system.
Granted, many of the judges we have simply enforce the laws, but if the appeals process goes far enough, the laws WILL be changed BY A COURT. How many judges upheld slavery before it made it to the Supreme Court? :) |
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Anonymous
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Date: September 24, 2000 @ 2:38 PM
Three years ago, I used to buy (on average) around 20 CDs a year, maybe a few more.
In the past two years, I have bought 4. Why? Because I can download them off the Internet or copy a friends CD.
And I'm not the only one. Most of my friends are just as bad, if not worse that I am.
My point is, all you dickheads who think that free music will promote CD sales are all pulling yourselves. If you download a full album of songs off the net, and then burn them as a CD-A, why would you bother to buy it again? If you say you do, you're fucken lying - either that or some sort of martyr.
The thing that makes me laugh is listening to fuckwits like the guy above who reckons he'll never pay for another song again and that artists should get a real job. It's pin-head attitudes like this that will make it increasingly difficult for us to get any sort of music - because there'll be no fucking artists left to make the music in the first place. What a fucken wanker!
I feel sorry for the artists, but if the prices of Cds where cheaper, I would buy all my Cds instead of downloading them. In Australia, we pay anywhere from $24 upto $38 per SINGLE CD (Double CDs are upto $60). Every few years we have a so called independant tribunal look into the cost of Cds and declare they are too expensive and that the record labels should drop the prices, but instead of them going down, they go up another buck and a half! It's bullshit.
So, don't tell the artists to fuck off, it's the labels that need to get the shaft!
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