Song-Swap Networks Still Humming
Katie Dean,
Wired News,
Oct 26, 2004
CD sales are increasing again; this must mean that file sharing has slowed, right? No. File sharing is also increasing. "In general we observe that P2P activity has not diminished," says the study, which will be presented at IEEE Globecom 2004 next month. "On the contrary, P2P traffic represents a significant amount of internet traffic and is likely to continue to grow in the future, RIAA behavior notwithstanding." When sharing increases, sales increase. When sharing is reduced - as it was, briefly, when Napster was shut down - sales are reduced. The current increase in CD sales is because of - not in spite of - increased file sharing.
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