Anti-War Movies Don't Sell
Review of Sufjan Steven's "BQE"
Mike Huckabee: a conservative with a social gospel
Suffering, Evil and the Existence of God
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Report: No Connection Between File-Sharing, CD Sales
Report: No Connection Between File-Sharing, CD Sales
November 05, 2007 - Global | Digital and Mobile
By Robert Thompson, Toronto
A new Canadian government study concludes there is no discernable connection - either positive or negative - between free sharing of music files on the Internet and the purchasing of compact discs. The study was conducted by University of London department of management professors Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz and commissioned by Industry Canada, a federal government ministry.
"We are unable to find direct evidence that P2P file-sharing either increases or decreases CD purchases in Canada," the report stated. "That is, in our analysis of the whole Canadian population we are unable to find any relationship between the number of P2P music tracks that were downloaded and the number CD purchases."
However, the report also dismissed some long held connections between P2P sharing and purchasing of music. For example, the report said it could not find a link between people who contended they were only using P2P to preview music and actual CD purchases
While many pundits have blamed alternative entertainment sources - from DVDs, to movies to cell phones - as limiting the amount consumers spend on music, the report found exactly the opposite. Those that spend more money on entertainment also typically buy a greater number of music CDs, the study found.
The study, which appears to have been submitted in May, queried 2,100 Canadians 15 years and older, of which 1,005 respondents who declared that they were peer to-peer downloaders and 1,095 that declared not to have engaged in the activity.
The Canadian music industry has blamed free downloading and lax copyright legislation for a massive sales decline starting in 1999. In 2006, the estimated revenue total for the year was $719 million, a 45% decrease from 1999 when music sales totaled $1.3 billion in Canada. Based on a study conducted for the Canadian Recording Industry Association by pollster Pollara, it was estimated that 1.3 billion music tracks are downloaded freely in Canada each year, opposed to 20 million legal downloads in 2006.
November 05, 2007 - Global | Digital and Mobile
By Robert Thompson, Toronto
A new Canadian government study concludes there is no discernable connection - either positive or negative - between free sharing of music files on the Internet and the purchasing of compact discs. The study was conducted by University of London department of management professors Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz and commissioned by Industry Canada, a federal government ministry.
"We are unable to find direct evidence that P2P file-sharing either increases or decreases CD purchases in Canada," the report stated. "That is, in our analysis of the whole Canadian population we are unable to find any relationship between the number of P2P music tracks that were downloaded and the number CD purchases."
However, the report also dismissed some long held connections between P2P sharing and purchasing of music. For example, the report said it could not find a link between people who contended they were only using P2P to preview music and actual CD purchases
While many pundits have blamed alternative entertainment sources - from DVDs, to movies to cell phones - as limiting the amount consumers spend on music, the report found exactly the opposite. Those that spend more money on entertainment also typically buy a greater number of music CDs, the study found.
The study, which appears to have been submitted in May, queried 2,100 Canadians 15 years and older, of which 1,005 respondents who declared that they were peer to-peer downloaders and 1,095 that declared not to have engaged in the activity.
The Canadian music industry has blamed free downloading and lax copyright legislation for a massive sales decline starting in 1999. In 2006, the estimated revenue total for the year was $719 million, a 45% decrease from 1999 when music sales totaled $1.3 billion in Canada. Based on a study conducted for the Canadian Recording Industry Association by pollster Pollara, it was estimated that 1.3 billion music tracks are downloaded freely in Canada each year, opposed to 20 million legal downloads in 2006.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Thrice
Everyone needs to rush out and buy the new Thrice album, "The Alchemy Index, Vol. 1&2: Fire and Water". Great stuff! The last two ep's, "The Alchemy Index, Vol. 3&4: Wind and Earth", will be released in early '08.
They had the whole album up for streaming on their myspace but it will be taken down very soon, so just go out and buy it!
They had the whole album up for streaming on their myspace but it will be taken down very soon, so just go out and buy it!
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Free Spiderman 3 Bible Study
Here's a Spiderman 3 Bible Study from the good people at Infuze Magazine. While you're there check out the site, they have a lot of great stuff. I can't comment on the study yet becuase I have not seen the movie.
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