Don't blame downloaders for lack of CD sales

Could file sharing and downloading of music really have no tangible impact on CD sales?

That's what Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee of the Harvard Business School and Professor Koleman S. Strumpf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill say in a new report according to an article in the New York Times.

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Music labels quietly use file-sharing data to boost sales (Houston Chronicle)

Record-label executives discreetly use research firms such as BigChampagne to track which songs are traded online and help pick which new singles to release. They increasingly use such file-sharing data to convince radio stations and MTV to give new songs a spin or boost airplay for those that are popular with downloaders. More.

Using P2P to Boost Sales (Slyck.com)

The American music industry also has a secret to tell: it utilizes P2P to boost music sales. More.