{"id":115,"date":"2007-02-14T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T13:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/p2p-has-no-effect-on-legal-music-sales\/"},"modified":"2007-02-14T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T13:04:29","slug":"p2p-has-no-effect-on-legal-music-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/p2p-has-no-effect-on-legal-music-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"P2P has no effect on legal music sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamicorange.com\/blog\/archives\/internet-social-impact\/steve_jobs_appl.html\">Rob recently talked about<\/a> Steve Jobs views on how the music industry&#8217;s insistence on DRM simply doesnt work, which I agree with. Along similar lines I was very interested to <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070212-8813.html\">read about a new study published<\/a> in the Journal of Political Economy. I think the study refers to this paper, or perhaps a more recent version of it entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/~cigar\/papers\/FileSharing_March2004.pdf\">The effect of file sharing on Record Sales, an Empirical analysis<\/a>. that asserts that illegal music downloads have no noticeable effect on the sale of music &#8211; which is completely contrary to the claims made by the record industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob recently talked about Steve Jobs views on how the music industry&#8217;s insistence on DRM simply doesnt work, which I agree with. Along similar lines I was very interested to read about a new study published in the Journal of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/p2p-has-no-effect-on-legal-music-sales\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,5],"tags":[382,405,385],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-security","category-technology","tag-personal","tag-security","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}