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I read today that a couple researchers have done a study on internet downloads of music and CD sales. What'd they find?
No significant correlation between the two. Zero. Zip. Nada.
This of course flies in the face of what the RIAA has been saying for the last couple of years. They have surveys, of course, but have you seen the survey questions? They're leading, IMO, and don't get to the real causes. If someone is downloading music, but not buying it, why not? Are they simply pirating music or perhaps they're getting digital versions of music they already own? Are they sampling what's out there and deciding not to buy the CD because they don't like the music? There are a lot of reasons folks download music and don't buy right away beyond the obvious but they surveys don't cover those in any great detail.
IN any event, this study (a PDF several pages long, but worth reading)ought to make them sweat.
I wonder if we'll see a little Congressional action in the near future.
Current mood:
amused.
I'm not particularly keen on the ads being run by the Bush Campaign. The President has a lot of good things to say in his favor. He needs to be saying them now, not a couple months from now.
They ought to check out this amateur ad and give the admaker a job. Tomorrow.
Current mood:
amused.
This is worth reading through.
It's a retelling of the famous (or infamous) Fells Acres Day Care case in the mid-1980's. The case was one of the more sensational of the time and was at the very height of the "day care center sexual abuse" trials which popped up all over the country.
In this case, it looks like an innocent family was ground exceedingly fine by a prosecutory machine determined that they be found guilty come hell or high water.
Read a bit - check out the links - and see what you think.
Go ahead, you know you want to know. Try it and see!
Apaprently, I'm the Fifth level of Hell (though I could have as easily been the Second, or Lustful Level - WaaHooo!).
Here's a wonderful snippet of the description.
"Fifth Level of Hell
The river Styx runs through this level of Hell, and in it are punished the wrathful and the gloomy. The former are forever lashing out at each other in anger, furious and naked, tearing each other piecemeal with their teeth. The latter are gurgling in the black mud, slothful and sullen, withdrawn from the world. Their lamentations bubble to the surface as they try to repeat a doleful hymn, though with unbroken words they cannot say it. Because you lived a cruel, vindictive and hateful life, you meet your fate in the Styx."
Aren't you glad to know me?
Please, don't click this unless you need to feel your brains leaking out of your ears or have some horrible vendetta against your cubicle neighbor at work.
On second thought. Go ahead and click. You all deserve to be singing this the rest of the day.
I love y'all too much to keep it to myself.