one free download in so-called pirated waters does not de facto equate to one lost sale: “What the RIAA tends to take as normal are those inflated numbers when baby boomers were replacing their vinyl collections with CDs,” Sterne reminds. “So those numbers were kind of artificial, because you can’t sustain sales of people replacing their old stuff forever. It’s a great business model if your business is consumer electronics; it’s not a great business model if your business is music.”
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:43:04 +0000
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