[Infowarrior] - 'Rampant Piracy' Is Deader Than Your Outdated Metrics

[Richard Forno]

Dear Recording Industry: 'Rampant Piracy' Is Deader Than Your Outdated Metrics

from the the-newest-music-genre:-'post-Napster' dept

Tom Townshend at MSN Music posits an interesting question: is illegal downloading dead? To be sure, asking any lobbyist fronting for the RIAA this question will result in a long-winded tongue lashing that compares today's "digital dimes" with yesteryear's "plastic money-printing machine." But the question is valid. Is piracy as much of a problem as the RIAA insists it is? Or has music consumption changed so dramatically that the old yardsticks no longer work?

Townshend points out some interesting stats on last week's chart toppers....

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http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20121127/15205021160/dear-recording-industry-rampant-piracy-is-deader-than-your-outdated-metrics.shtml



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