Does Downloading Take Away From Sales?
By juliemarie84
@juliemarie84 (642)
United States
March 2, 2007 12:30am CST
A lot of artists complain that they are losing sales and profits because of people downloading music. Many people download music, movies, and games illegally. However do you think this really is taking away from sales that much? I don't know any numbers of facts and figures so I'm just asking outloud. Some people argue that, "If I download it, I probably never would've bought it anyway." or "I buy things that I really want anyway."
Some even say that downloading is a good exposure for bands, movies, ect. It's exposure they wouldn't be able to get otherwise. What do you think?
3 responses
@Lunerian (493)
• Sweden
2 Mar 07
IMHO downloading is a good thing, it's a great place to make the band known, I have discovered several new bands through downloading, among those my favorite band. Lost sales is pretty much a myth that the record companies make up asuming that every downloaded song is a lost sale. Bullshit if you ask me, I tend to buy music I've downloaded.
@juliemarie84 (642)
• United States
2 Mar 07
I hear that musicians barely make any money from record sales anyway, but from concerts and merchandise. It's the producers that are probably having the real trouble.
@ScarletAlston (2693)
• United States
2 Mar 07
artists are in fact complaining that they are losing profits because of downloading..and some even put their music where people can get to it for free just to see what people think of their music..it is hurting sales when you can go and download someone's entire cd, keep the songs you want, and delete the ones you don't..but it also helps you to decide whether or not you even like this person's music before you go and spend 15.00 on their cd to find you only like 1-2 songs..instead of worrying about downloads, mayve they should work on the prices of cds first..
@cyclops_online2004 (779)
• India
2 Mar 07
Whatever the artists complain is absloutely correct. People who download the songs of various dont pay for them and so its quite obvious that the artists and music industry is at a big loss.
But, the new artists who dont get much of the media support come forward to the internet and upload their songs to expose them to the world. So, they are the ones who actually benefit from it.
