More on: A Heretical View of File Sharing

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

From: "Bernard A. Galler" <galler () umich edu>

**  I recently talked to a class of about 100 Engineering students at 
Michigan about copyright, and we got into a long discussion of music 
downloading.  Almost all of them admitted that they had done Napster-style 
downloading, but many of them said that they still purchased CD's.

The overwhelming opinion of the students was that they would purchase many 
more legitimate albums if (1) they contained more than one song that they 
wanted, (2) if singles were more available, and (3) most important, if the 
price charged was more in line with the value they thought they were 
receiving.  They thought that Apple's deal with iTunes was a major step in 
the right direction, but it represented only a minor part of the available 
music.
Bernie  

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