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On 31/03/04, David Seubert wrote: > For those of you who were at the ARSC Conference and heard the > spokesperson for the RIAA state that downloading is the cause of the > recent decline in CD sales might want to read about a new study which > found that this is not true: > > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994831 Here is the original paper. It seems very thorough. http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdf However, I suspect the RIAA are against anybody being able to hear any music without paying for it, even if it were shown that downloading greatly increased sales. Some people feel that nothing should ever be free - they would commercialise the Library of Congress if they could. Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]