Re:Have you seen the front page of Pirate Bay?
by antidaily on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @11:20AM
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That is the record label's argument verbatim. There is not shortage of new bands or artists and most artists make almost nothing off albums sales. Most touring bands make the majority of their money on merch sales.
Re:Have you seen the front page of Pirate Bay?
by anamax on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @04:12PM
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> Uh, what? All those facts seem pretty consistent with artists losing sales due to piracy.
All? I don't see the relationship between piracy and the number of songs on an album or song length.
Music competes competes with other things for attention and "wallet share". For example, online gaming is exploding among the population that is not buying as much music.
Uh, what? All those facts seem pretty consistent with artists losing sales due to piracy. Fewer new artists and existing artists making less music could indicate that piracy is taking away incentives for people to make music. Even cost per album could be due to trying to re-coup more revenue from falling sales (not saying this is a rational strategy, but not inconsistent with losing music sales to piracy).