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June 25, 2005
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RIAA: Efficiency Increases, Must Be Due to Pirates
The Listless Lawyer isn't too listless to notice the RIAA's shady use of language (The RIAA Lies… Well, Nobody Dies, But It’s Still Pretty Dishonest).
According to a recent piece in the Washington Post, the RIAA has found a new way to continue claiming (against the evidence) that they are being killed by file sharing: focusing on “shipments”, rather than sales or profits. [link in original]
Listless then references
Begging to Differ (
For Shame).
The magic word is "shipments". Have a look here. Music retailers tightened up their ordering methods using a system called SoundScan that tracks CD sales on a per-disc basis. This greatly increases efficiency -- a clearer picture of demand means fewer unsold albums have to be returned to the label. Yes, fewer discs are being shipped, but sales are up. Revenues are, too -- although of course that was bitten into by the industry coming to a large settlement over price-fixing. [link in original]
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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