File Trading Is Good For The Music Industry

from the we've-heard-this-before dept

Well, lots of us have been saying this for a while, but here’s a good article from Wharton quoting a bunch of people basically saying that the music industry is being stupid in trying to stop music sharing online. As they point out, online music tracks are advertising. It’s a promotional vehicle, and the more buzz an artist gets, the more you sell. The music industry, of course, vehemently disagrees, but that’s because they’re too lazy to realize it’s about time they changed their business model.


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Something strange happend to me today. I looked all over for a song on several file sharing programs and couldn’t find it. So I finally gave in and ordered the CD. Then my friend tried it with a few new search keywords and found it. So I cancelled the order right away. I had always been convinced that I was only using file sharing to get songs I wouldn’t buy, but now I am starting to wonder.

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