According to the results of recent researchs, the YouTube adversely affects them sales of music albums, having the same or even worse impact than piracy.
The 2009 the Warner Music Group decided to "chase" the Youtube and forbid the videos that had music that belonged to the company.
This move resulted in increase sales of discs of the company, with the albums of Top 200 having almost double sales, while it is estimated that damage for these albums it was 1 million dollars a year.
That said research rated for 4 for about a year the above losses, while recording them sales discs each week after the ban, while also taking into account statistics from the Google Trends about artists.
This is an example of the wrong direction of the companies about them low sales, who for years believed that the problem she was piracy.
Of course, all of this arises from this research and at a time when Internet music was not so widespread, or the use of applications like Napster and Spotify.
Source: e-pcmag.gr
