Consume. Consume!
An interesting survey on p2pnet.net shows that file sharers often purcahse the products they share.
The site makes the claim that file sharing is nuetral or good for the market place, or at least not as bad as the movie/music/software giants claim it to be.
Whether this is true or not (the statsitics show that the music industry had taken a major hit despite p2pnet’s claim that file sharers are consumers too), the survey data and p2pnet’s analysis is very interesting.
However, wheras p2pnet tries to use the data to justify illegal file sharing, I would use it to point out the growing trend of file sharing and a need to integrate it into the primary media market. Anyway, check it out.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:00 pm
Perhaps if the music industry lowered the price of CD’s (up $10 in 10 years? Ridiculous), more consumers would be likely to purchase their music legally. It’s not a perfect solution, but the RIAA has become a tyrant to culture.
August 8th, 2005 at 4:15 pm
Yes, and then find a way to regulate the p2p market. Ultimately, when everything is digital, the big labels will be forced to address this issue in some other way than sueing their customers and clogging networks with dummy files.