Comments on: RIAA Releases Year End Stats http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2004/03/04/riaa-releases-year-end-stats/ by Derek Slater Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:07:35 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mark Williams http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2004/03/04/riaa-releases-year-end-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-4529 Mark Williams Mon, 08 Mar 2004 22:22:14 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2004/03/04/riaa-releases-year-end-stats/#comment-4529 <a></a> For years, the online community has fought the idea that file sharing is causing these decreases. There were claims that music just wasn't as good as when we were young(!), or that people today are more interested in watching movies and playing games, or that it was the economic slowdown. There was a widely reported analysis which said that the size of the catalog was dropping, which would supposedly explain it. Do you think that eventually, even those in the community who support file sharing will accept that this technology is cutting into CD sales? Has this finally happened, or is the consensus still that those other explanations work better?

For years, the online community has fought the idea that file sharing is causing these decreases. There were claims that music just wasn’t as good as when we were young(!), or that people today are more interested in watching movies and playing games, or that it was the economic slowdown. There was a widely reported analysis which said that the size of the catalog was dropping, which would supposedly explain it.

Do you think that eventually, even those in the community who support file sharing will accept that this technology is cutting into CD sales? Has this finally happened, or is the consensus still that those other explanations work better?

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