{"id":3899,"date":"2011-04-08T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2015-09-30T18:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:58:31","slug":"record-industry-feels-sales-would-have-skyrocketed-if-p2p-never-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/record-industry-feels-sales-would-have-skyrocketed-if-p2p-never-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Industry Feels Sales Would Have Skyrocketed if P2P Never Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the record industry that full of themselves that they think their sales would skyrocket if P2P never happened? Apparently they are, just look at this graph they presented.<\/p>\n

Give me a minute I will present a graph that shows if I had picked a different number in the lottery 10 years ago I would be super rich right now.<\/p>\n

For over a decade, US album sales have been racing to the bottom. In the trial brief for their case against LimeWire, the record industry has presented a graph that shows how sales may have fared had Napster never occurred. It’s an interesting chart to analyze. Would sales have continued to race to the top or would the video game boom taken away some steam?<\/p>\n

Given the technological and cultural shifts have happened since Napster, it feels dishonest to say that sales would’ve just endlessly skyrocketed.<\/p>\n

There’s no doubt that the record industry market would be much healthier today, but would it be this healthy? Had P2P technologies not came to be, many other events would’ve impacted sales negatively. Nowhere near as negatively as others, but still. Is the chart below overly optimistic or not nearly optimistic enough?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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(via Hollywood Reporter<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

via Record Industry Profits If Napster Never Hit [CHART] – hypebot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is the record industry that full of themselves that they think their sales would skyrocket if P2P never happened? Apparently they are, just look at this graph they presented. Give me a minute I will present a graph that shows if I had picked a different number in the lottery 10 years ago I would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,12],"tags":[214,802,305],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-music-marketing-2","tag-napster","tag-p2p","tag-record-industry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11687,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions\/11687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}