Re: music download discounts

[Rick Coloccia <coloccia () GENESEO EDU>]

While it's almost impossible to say with any scientific certainty, I'd
say that here Ruckus did not decrease our count of DMCA violations at all.

-Rick

Roger Safian wrote:
> I wonder is a service like Ruckus will actually have
> any impact on the number of DMCA notices we receive.
> My suspicion is it would not, but I'd love to hear
> I'm wrong.
>
> My guess is that there are plenty of options for
> listening to music on your computer, but what students
> want is being able to copy that music to their mp3
> player.  They also want to be able to do this for
> free, since their perceived competitors offer "free"
> downloads.  Until you can make significant changes
> to the culture, whereas downloading material has
> a social stigma, "free" is going to trump a buck
> a song.

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