Oct 9, 2007, 08:59 PM
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Has the RIAA actually done any kind of study that says "Here are our sales for this record to date. Here is the trend change after we released it for free?"
I've seen posts by artists in all sorts of different media that say they actually experienced an increase in sales of either the older stuff which was released for free, or stuff that was just coming out, which coincided with a free release of older material.
The only rhetoric I've heard has been in aggregate and very hand-wavy and unspecific. ie. "Sales are dropping by billions and the internet started, therefore there is causality!"
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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