willyhoops;200953 Wrote: > I saw the article by Janis Ian. I can't see the bit where he got to 2% > but it looks like a complete junk article. For example: > > > > Even the copyright abolish fans here are surley not arging that file > sharing has had no financial hard on anyone. > > There is no quality control on the internet. If you search around you > will find that September the 11th was a US / Israeli plot as well. And > Dianna was murdered by the MI6. And that they never landed on the > moon... Do you believe these things as well?
Sure, file sharing might have had an effect. But so might the availability of other forms of entertainment, an overall lousy product, or any number of other factors. This has been analyzed quite a bit by numerous people, and it really isn't all that clear that the troubles of the big music companies are all caused by file sharing. They've certainly claimed this, but correlation isn't causation, as you well know (or should anyway), and they certainly have offered nothing in the way of solid arguments for this claim. Most of the music I buy (I've bought ~300 cds in the last year) is on small specialist jazz labels, which seem to be resurgent, so, again, I'd really want to see some better evidence in order to accept that there's an overall crisis in music making. As to your "argument" about the janis ian thing: all you've done is spout ad hominems. Tell us something specific that's wrong with her claims. Regarding your arguments by authority, they're plainly laughable. The Guardian is certainly not immune to publishing nonsense when it comes to technology, so I wouldn't exactly take them as the final arbiter of anything. As far as quality control on the internet goes: this seems to be another of your unintentionally self-referential statements :) -- totoro squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
