The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its Report on Digital Music: Opportunities and Challenges. (Wired, Times Online). Key findings:

• It is difficult to establish a basis to prove a causal relationship between the 20% fall in overall revenues experienced by the music industry between 1999 and 2003, but digital piracy may be an important impediment to the success of legitimate online content markets.
• Internet-based piracy may be reduced, if licensed file-sharing [such as the RazorPop Unlimited Music Subscription] and new forms of (super)-distribution [such as Altnet and Weedshare] evolve.

I hope policymakers are listening.

Marc Freedman
RazorPop, developer of TrustyFiles, the leading multiple network P2P file sharing software
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