Downloads Blamed For Low CD Sales
from the of-course-they-are dept
A new RIAA sponsored study shows (what else?) that lower CD sales are caused by people downloading music. The report seems to ignore some other very basic possibilities: such as the economic downturn, the fact that the music industry has been putting out increasingly bad music, and the lack of airplay and promotion the music industry is allowing to new or different acts. Those couldn't possibly have anything to do with it at all. The Register does a good job tearing apart the report, and points out the silliest of the RIAA's arguments. In order to show just how big a threat downloadable music is, they mention that they've increased the seizure of illegal pirated CDs lately by nearly 70%. Wait a second... illegal pirated CDs have absolutely nothing to do with downloadable music. If people are downloading all their music instead of buying CDs (as the report claims) than they're certainly not buying illegal burned CDs as well.
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