New category in the File Sharing Database
Posted on August 01, 2004 @ 10:17 in General
Slashdot points to the File Sharing Database, which offers people a place to register which CDs, DVDs, software or other stuff they bought after having first sampled part or whole of it by downloading it through a file sharing utility. They say that:
The ultimate goal is to show what (if any) significant revenue the RIAA, MPAA, and SPA have to credit to the file sharing community, and hopefully convince some of the organizations supporting them that their money would be better spent taking advantage of this market rather than trying to exterminate it.
It's nice to know what stuff people did buy because they liked it, but I suggest another category in the database (can't be too hard): stuff people didn't buy because they sampled it and they thought it sucked. Then you could also list how much money people saved by not buying a CD that they'd really only listened too twice (Moby, 18, ~10 euro) or movies that looked interesting but that you only saw 25 minutes of on an airplane, so you got them on video and they sucked (Moulin Rouge, ~10 euro).
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