Glyn: "A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry."
Over on the ORG-discuss list, Rufus Pollock has pointed readers of this study to a paper which attempts to collect all the academic, economic research on p2p and the music industry.
Another report in this space suggests two-thirds of European record industry executives think DRM is reducing music sales. Unfortunately its behind a pay-wall so cannot offer further analysis.
Reply #2 on : Wed February 14, 2007, 20:15:38