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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4919248" data-attributes="member: 40961"><p>Presuming its the "german students" study that was so big and well known, its not so much that the study is "biased" per se. Its more that the study investigates whether short term (a few month long) increase in the availability and rate of music downloads is correlated with short term variation in music sales. And then it extrapolates from that to make claims about the overall extent to which music downloading affects music sales.</p><p> </p><p>1. Its not clear to me that short term variation in the rate of music downloads versus the rate of music sales is actually a good base from which to extrapolate information about the overall effect of music piracy on music sales. To give you an example, suppose that I could prove that for three months out of the year sales of music on CD spike to a high point. I then prove to you that sales of vinyl barely moved at all during this time period, and argued that the availability of music on CD therefore has no effect and has had no effect on the sales of vinyl. That would be kind of a dumb argument, wouldn't it? The purchasers of CDs have already shifted from vinyl to CD, and there's little reason to think that they're regularly choosing between CDs and vinyl on a purchase by purchase basis. The delta effect of sales of CDs on sales of vinyl already happened, and now we're dealing with a stable environment in which the new media has already crushed the old one, and variations in the new media take place without causing further effect. Music downloading could be the same way- the fact that music downloaders do more of it in certain months could have minimal effect on whether they use alternatives. It could be simple time shifting.</p><p> </p><p>2. The author is affiliated with Cato. I'm not an expert on music retail. But in my own field, I have a degree of expertise, and I am familiar with Cato's publications. There's about a 65% chance that a Cato publication will be utterly moronic drivel. There's also about a 35% chance that it will be an intelligent and worthwhile investigation of an area of public policy that is too often neglected. Cato, I am afraid, simply hasn't got very good quality control. I am not able to judge the quality of this publication any further than I already have, but the Cato affiliation does raise questions. They've tried to sell me a line before, so I try to be careful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 4919248, member: 40961"] Presuming its the "german students" study that was so big and well known, its not so much that the study is "biased" per se. Its more that the study investigates whether short term (a few month long) increase in the availability and rate of music downloads is correlated with short term variation in music sales. And then it extrapolates from that to make claims about the overall extent to which music downloading affects music sales. 1. Its not clear to me that short term variation in the rate of music downloads versus the rate of music sales is actually a good base from which to extrapolate information about the overall effect of music piracy on music sales. To give you an example, suppose that I could prove that for three months out of the year sales of music on CD spike to a high point. I then prove to you that sales of vinyl barely moved at all during this time period, and argued that the availability of music on CD therefore has no effect and has had no effect on the sales of vinyl. That would be kind of a dumb argument, wouldn't it? The purchasers of CDs have already shifted from vinyl to CD, and there's little reason to think that they're regularly choosing between CDs and vinyl on a purchase by purchase basis. The delta effect of sales of CDs on sales of vinyl already happened, and now we're dealing with a stable environment in which the new media has already crushed the old one, and variations in the new media take place without causing further effect. Music downloading could be the same way- the fact that music downloaders do more of it in certain months could have minimal effect on whether they use alternatives. It could be simple time shifting. 2. The author is affiliated with Cato. I'm not an expert on music retail. But in my own field, I have a degree of expertise, and I am familiar with Cato's publications. There's about a 65% chance that a Cato publication will be utterly moronic drivel. There's also about a 35% chance that it will be an intelligent and worthwhile investigation of an area of public policy that is too often neglected. Cato, I am afraid, simply hasn't got very good quality control. I am not able to judge the quality of this publication any further than I already have, but the Cato affiliation does raise questions. They've tried to sell me a line before, so I try to be careful. [/QUOTE]
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