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Old 17th May 2007   #180
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Originally Posted by Mike Caffrey View Post
You guys are agruing two different points. You're right that this can happen without P2Ps/ His point is that there is a benefit to giving away music.

The way I see it is that if you change the revenue model so that everyone benefits from free distribution of music, P2Ps then have an enormous value becuase they are the most effective method of delivering the free music.

But of course, with the curent model, losing P2Ps doesn't hurt the industry in any way.
It's perfect if you want to totally devalue music. Giving away a few million records is not the forumula for selling records. It may sound like good publicity, but it's a bit silly.
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