Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Downloading Music--Serious Crime? Welcome to Bizarro World?

Does the downloading of music from the Internet harm recording industry sales? A recent study published in the New Scientist disputes any correlation between downloading and declining record sales:

Net music piracy 'does not harm record sales'

While the folks at Wired magazine state what I have been thinking all along, that maybe the music's just lousy and the recording industry would like us to buy the crap anyways so that they can have nice houses and drive expensive cars?

Nonetheless our continuously distracted congress took the time to pass the pirate act on March 25th, which could carry up to ten years in prison for simple file sharing. Once again the folks at Wired supply us with the full lowdown on the act and other events:

Congress Moves to Criminalize P2P

(Thanks to Paul Jones, SNAFU, Mobius, and the posting sites Mediasquatters and Jakeneck for sources/discussion)

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