The Demonweasel Speaks

I’m still trying to recover from watching Donald Trump host SNL. God, has there ever been a more self-involved, self-promoting douche? If he and Paris Hilton ever got together, I think they’d hatch Damien or something. Some things were actually funny, but there was a major creep-out factor.

Great article about a study on “illegal” file-sharing and how it relates to record sales in today’s New York Times. I won’t spout off here, I’ll let Felix Oberholzer-Gee of the Harvard Business School and co-author of the report speak for me…

“Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero.”

“While downloads occur on a vast scale, most users are likely individuals who would not have bought the album in the absence of file sharing.”

I didn’t get to read all of it, but they used Math and shit. I haven’t found a copy of the article on the net (not looking helps, but I only looked on Fark), but they used math and shit. So it must be true, because math has never lied.

Ever.

Quick in, quick out, I remain…