Comments on: Report: Despite Piracy, Music Is More Alive Than Ever Before

By: Mais evidências: a música está mais viva do que nunca

Mais evidências: a música está mais viva do que nunca — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:42:52 +0000

[...] de Economia Aplicada na Carlson School (Universidade de Minnesota), que afirma categoricamente que os downloads não prejudicaram a criação de novas músicas como as gravadoras e as sociedades de d…. Na verdade, tudo indica que o estado atual da criação de música está melhor do que nunca. Em [...]

By: The Role of Music Promotions Manager to Outline Online Music Promotions | the musician's place

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:52:22 +0000

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By: Gustavo Lapido Loureiro

Gustavo Lapido Loureiro — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:40:00 +0000

Hi Ernesto,
I’m intending to translate this article to portuguese – as I did with many others from here, before.
I wonder if you could give me some links to ilustrate what you say in the first paragraph, to give it more consistency:
“In recent years many academics have researched the supposed link between Internet piracy and the revenues of the major music labels, with varying results. Some have concluded that there is no adverse impact of piracy on sales, others argue that there’s a moderate negative relation, but the overall consensus is that the losses as claimed by the industry itself are hugely exaggerated. ”
Just two or three links to those academic studies, If this doesn’t give you much trouble.
Regards

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By: Eatingbetty

Eatingbetty — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:55:00 +0000

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By: DocGerbil100

DocGerbil100 — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:35:00 +0000

I read the 50-page pdf. TBPH, some of it’s reasoning seems rather shaky to me. The idea that one can estimate how many more or less albums would have been made if online piracy didn’t exist doesn’t really sound all that plausible, in either direction.

The MAFIAA can’t honestly claim that there is evidence that investment in new artists has dropped because of piracy, without giving out much more hard data on sales, investment percentages and so forth – but IMHO, equally we can’t honestly claim that there is evidence to the contrary since the only means of testing the question without the hard data are just too speculative. Even with that data, it’s very much open to interpretation (as the author of the paper says himself).

Joel Wadfogel – this paper’s author – uses various third-party best-of lists culled from various famous publications to establish measures of average supply of quality albums over time. I think his suggestion is somewhat disingenuous, on the face of it – by definition, the best new works in a given timeframe will be hailed as the best new works and I think they’ll be remembered for expressing the spirit of the age regardless of any perceptions of quality.

Having said that, I do agree with the paper’s indication that the availability of new quality music cannot be said to have been undermined by piracy on the basis of any publically-available evidence – if nothing else, it does successfully debunk that suggestion. :)

By: DocGerbil100

DocGerbil100 — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:12:00 +0000

You made a couple of errors in your post, Jack. It should read: "Not one of these the MAFIAA's "studies" has explained why people the MAFIAA have the right to have everything their heart desires for free. The assumption is that just because you have the technology to screw the artist and the consumer, makes it morally ok." Stupid troll is stupid.

By: ryanfiend - Report: Despite Piracy, Music Is More Alive Than Ever Before

ryanfiend - Report: Despite Piracy, Music Is More Alive Than Ever Before — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:36:16 +0000

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By: ma.flor

ma.flor — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:42:00 +0000

As for this topic, I agree that music has never been alive like what we have today. And I think file sharing has contributed also to the music industry. Big labels kinda run a monopoly with regards to distribution and selling of cds and stuff but what I think is that they are just being scared that there are now small groups that can also do the same stuff that they can do and that their monopoly could be shattered.

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By: ma.flor

ma.flor — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:32:00 +0000

I agree. You should see and study the big picture per se and not just a glimpse of a small part of it.

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