Interesting Tim O'Reilly article.

From: Dan Wright <dtwright_at_uiuc.edu>
Date: Fri Dec 13 08:50:01 2002

Wayne M. Smith said:
> >
> You are a rare breed of a bygone age. The college market, for example, a
> prior mainstay of music sales, is largely gone. At most campus dorms you
> can get any current album burned by a fellow student for $1.00 plus media.
> And this is what they do. Why? Well, the money, bolstered by the fact that
> college campuses are infected by a "nothing is ever really wrong" moral
> relativism where only a fool would pay an extra $10 for the real thing.

Really? Where do you get these statistics? Most things I have read
contradict what you are saying and reinforce the "most people sample then buy"
assumption. If you have a source for these numbers I would be quite
interested to read it.

- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)

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