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This just (well, recently -- I've seen it a few times) in from CNET news via the Globe and Mail: File-sharing doesn't kill CD sales, study finds. The story kind of puts a dent in the recording industry's whine about the evils of file sharing on their business. In short:
A study of file-sharing's effects on music sales says on-line music trading appears to have had little part in the recent slide in CD sales.Still, the tobacco industry didn't worry much about the studies that countered their story either.For the study, released Monday, researchers at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina tracked music downloads over 17 weeks in 2002, matching data on file transfers with actual market performance of the songs and albums being downloaded. Even high levels of file-swapping seemed to translate into an effect on album sales that was 'statistically indistinguishable from zero,' they wrote.