Hi guys, new member here

I am in the middle of an argument and wondered if anyone could help (maybe with a link to some evidence?)

 

The argument is about downloads.

 

1 side believes that if you buy from iTunes, Amazon, Play & Tesco it only counts as 1 sale/download if you do it on 1 PC as they do it by IP address

 

The other side says it counts as 4 sales towards the chart as it is bought 4 times with different accounts and different sites, plus if say 1,000 people at a company bought a track they could all have the same IP address but the above theory means it will only count once.

 

 

can anyone clear this up?

 

Thanks

As if the different companies were ever going to share and check the IP of their own customers... That's not even information they have the RIGHT to share between them (ie PRIVACY and such).

As far as I'm concerned, the matter comes when you download the same track several times from the same retailer and in the same order, and that's it.

Hi guys, new member here

I am in the middle of an argument and wondered if anyone could help (maybe with a link to some evidence?)

 

The argument is about downloads.

 

1 side believes that if you buy from iTunes, Amazon, Play & Tesco it only counts as 1 sale/download if you do it on 1 PC as they do it by IP address

 

The other side says it counts as 4 sales towards the chart as it is bought 4 times with different accounts and different sites, plus if say 1,000 people at a company bought a track they could all have the same IP address but the above theory means it will only count once.

can anyone clear this up?

 

Thanks

 

AIUI, purchasing on 4 sites counts as 4 sales, as there's no way the sites could tell you've purchased it elsewhere too.

 

I understood that you could buy up to three copies - that the OCC allows for fans buying a couple of extra copies in hope of helping a track chart, but that beyond a few is thought unreasonable.