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Inside The Mind Of A Music Pirate
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger gave an interesting response to a question about music profits recently. He said: But I have a take on that – people only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn’t make any money out of records because record companies [...]
Continue reading...Music File Sharing And Digital Disruption Aren’t Unfair
Monday, March 22, 2010
I spent part of last weekend cleaning out my CD collection. By that I mean I threw it in the trash. Some of the albums were somewhat obscure and stuff I’d probably never find in a store. But I threw them all out for the simple reason that I don’t need them anymore. I can [...]
Continue reading...File Sharing Will Lead To Better Music
Thursday, January 21, 2010
There’s a cool paper about file sharing that was written by economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf this past summer. The conclusion of the paper is that file sharing benefits society. One of the pieces of evidence for that is that less restrictive copyright laws have encouraged greater numbers of creative people to create. [...]
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
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