Report Claims Piracy Doesn't Affect Music Creation

[Tharic-Nar]

If the biggest companies in the recording industry are to be believed, piracy is ruining both music creation and of course, sales. According to a newly-released paper by American economist Joel Waldfogel, however, those claims couldn't be further from the truth. While piracy does have its obvious consequences, harm to music creation isn't one of them.

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[Rob Williams]

I can back up the claim that music creation has not suffered. I still beatbox in private as much as I used to.

 

[Greg King]

I can back up the claim that music creation has not suffered. I still beatbox in private as much as I used to.

He does.

 

[Optix]

Beat boxing to Celine Dione?

 

[TheCrimsonStar]

*reads article* *downloads every CD known to man*

 

[Kougar]

Beat boxing to Celine Dione?

Oh, so THAT was what I heard in the background over the phone when I last called Rob...

 

[Rob Williams]

Oh, so THAT was what I heard in the background over the phone when I last called Rob...

You know it