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Re: Another IPI Piracy Study

Kjell Andorsen — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:05:05 -0000

Enigma,

Per This Blog post at the AllofMP3 site, they are indeed planning a speedy return now that Russian courts have decided they are not in violation of Russian Laws.

Re: Another IPI Piracy Study

eee_eff — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:44:44 -0000

When the Institute for Policy Innovation published a study purporting to show the harms of movie piracy to the United States economy, I wrote a post critiquing it that was unnecessarily vituperative. After further reflection, I posted a follow-up post apologizing for the tone of that post. IPI president Tom Giovanetti apparently didn’t find my apology adequate, because he sent letters to the president and several board members of the Show-Me Institute, where I was employed at the time, seeking to have me reprimanded. Thankfully, they didn’t consider my post to be a firing offense.

My, my nothing like a little criticism to get the likes of the IPI up in arms. Their handling of that situation makes them look like complete fools. Of all the folks, here Tim you're among the lest rude.

On the same subject, I was wondering if you think the the now-defunct website allofmp3.com provided any useful service, in terms of walking the RIAA up to an alternate business plan?

Any sign of allofmp3.com coming back soon...?

Re: Another IPI Piracy Study

Doug Lay — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:01:28 -0000

>> Presumably, people don’t usually purchase an entire CD just to get one song.

You're showing your youth, Tim. Until pretty recently, it was pretty common for people to buy a CD for one song. Among people over 30 at the Wal-Mart, it may still happen quite a bit. But it does seem to be a dying practice. That's got to be hurting the record industry quite a bit. But it's orthogonal to the piracy issue, unless the IPI wants to claim that the bundling practices and resulting fat profits of the CD age are the recorded music industry's prerogative across any and all distribution channels and eras.