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There's a good argument to be made that sales are dropping this year
because Napster disappeared last year, and with it the only unitary
user-friendly means for people to listen to a lot of music before they buy
it.  Now the mass market is back to  relying on commercial radio to hear
music before buying it, and commercial radio is 99% shit.  No wonder
record sales are down.  IIRC, CD sales were up when Napster was
fully-functional, no?

TaB

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> This whole trend is really scary. The RIAA is simultaneously planning a
> campaign of lawsuits against individuals, while working through their
> lackeys  in Congress to allow them to erase files from individuals hard
> drives.
>
> The justification for the lawsuit compaign is outrageous-- a mere 5%
> drop in  sales in the middle of a recession.
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/775684.asp
>
> "Suits against individual Internet users - particularly if the
> defendants  aren't seeking to create profitable operations based on
> their online music  activities - could cause a backlash from some of the
> record industry's own  fans and biggest customers. But many music
> executives, watching revenue sag  as home compact-disc copying has
> soared, feel that they have little choice if  they are to save their
> business. World-wide music sales dropped 5% last  year..."
>
> I don't want to give the impression that I'm for the wholesale stealing
> of  intellectual property; I'm not. The problem here is there's a huge
> potential  for online music, and the industry is doing everything it can
> to stop all  advances, both legal and illegal, while offering up no
> alternatives of their  own.
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> - --
> Michael Winslow Czeiszperger
> czei at webperformanceinc d o t c o m
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