剛在雜誌上讀到一則新聞由哈佛大學商學院及北卡大學共同研究的調查報告表示P2P可能不但沒有傷害唱片銷售反而還增長了唱片銷量.
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Is File Swapping Piracy or Promotion?

Take that, RIAA! In the most methodoligically rigorous tracking study to date of actual online file-swapping patterns and sales of specific music CDs, two university researchers say that, at best, P2P networks account for a very small fraction of the music industry's sharp decline. By tracking and comparing heavily downloaded songs with their retail sales, researchers at Harvard Business School and University of North Carolina found that in the case of CDs that sold over 600,000 units, P2P activity actually may help retail performance by selling an additional CD for every 150 downloads of one of its songs. Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Harvard) and Koleman Strumpf (UNC) concluded that in the worst case scenario, file swapping accounted for lost of sales of only 2 million CDs in 2002, while as a whole, the industry sold 139 million fewer CDs between 2000 and 2002.

附錄: Koleman Strumpf 教授專訪, 55分鐘 Real Audio.
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