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A graduate student should pay $ 675,000 for downloading 30 songs from a P2P network.
From the charts below I wonder whether the recording industry is being damaged so badly from P2P…


Internet usage is from InternetWorldStats.com
Addenda: a friend correctly points out that the above charts are obscure…
In principle, if P2P is killing the music industry we should see a sharp drop in profits as P2P users increase. Unfortunately, neither industry profits or P2P usage statistics are readily available (at least to me, for a blog post!) so hopefully value added and internet users should give a reasonable picture. And I cannot see any sharp decline in the size of this industry, which is still relatively larger than in the pre-internet era.

Today this site has hit a 1/1000 ratio (!!!) of legitimate comments to spam comments filtered by Akismet. There are 11 comments overall to all my posts, and I deleted 11,169 spams so far… and this is just because I have a guestbook that bots find and spam regularly.
If you happen to be one of the very, very few interested in commenting my posts, you now know why your comment has a high probability of being filtered if you add any url!