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hafree
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Nielsen Rating System points to possible deceit in RIAA sales figures (Ars Technica Newsdesk)
"Soundscan shows a 10% increase in music sales when comparing the first quarter of 2004 to 1Q 2003. Yet, the RIAA insists that music sales are down."
"Retails stores simply want less inventory, so they order less, even though they are selling more."
"If more units are being sold and fewer units are being shipped, then that means the total cost-per-CD is actually in the RIAA's favor."
Discuss...
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hafree
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 11:25 am Post subject: |
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By the way, here's the full article.
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Mayhem
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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The RIAA was whining when Napster first caught on. Durring that whole lawsuite they complained they were losing money, when in reality, CD Sales went up 7%.
Since then i haven't cared what they said. I don't believe a word of it. When i see an executive from the RIAA driving a Hyundai, i'll listen.
With their last batch of lawsuites, several Gonzaga University students were served. I talked to a friend of mine at the college, and he said its bs, they won't even go through because the dynamic assigning of IP's. Not to mention that school ended last friday, and everyone has left. There is no way to trace their IP to them now. 
Anyways, I see most of the RIAA announcements as publicity stunts.
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uber-vexed
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| Mayhem wrote: | | Anyways, I see most of the RIAA announcements as publicity stunts. |
Indeed, it's a bunch of scare tactics. They're not going to be able to "bust" every single person in the US and Canada who is downloading music. If they tried that, their lawyer's bill would be more than the money that *is* being lost.
| Mayhem wrote: | | With their last batch of lawsuites, several Gonzaga University students were served. I talked to a friend of mine at the college, and he said its bs, they won't even go through because the dynamic assigning of IP's. Not to mention that school ended last friday, and everyone has left. There is no way to trace their IP to them now. |
I know quite a bit about computers, and it's safe to say that if the students at that college use dynamic IP addresses, there is virtually no way to trace a p2p client user back to his/her geographical location at the time of the download. Unless, of course, there's some sort of IP table that maps the IP addresses back to the network entry point. Sorry for all this techno-rambling. I just love to theorize about computer data networks. 
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Mayhem
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They assign ip's based upon mac address, but it allows for variance. So unless they have the card on the network then, had not rebooted, and retained the same ip, they have no way to trace it.
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