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[FYI] Music industry blames Net for all evil
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- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:41:18 +0200
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26815.html
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Music industry blames Net for all evil
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 27/08/2002 at 07:08 GMT
Despite the music industry's heroic efforts to produce, promote and
distribute the finest fruits of American artistic genius, sales of
CDs fell seven percent in the first half of 2002, after falling 5.3
per cent overall in 2001, the Recording Industry Ass. of America
reports.
Because of the exceptional brilliance and innovation evident in
today's pop offerings, discussions of dwindling consumer interest in
vapid, predictable cliche products would clearly be out of place. No,
the industry is doing everything right, so the only possible
explanation for a loss of revenue has got to be the pestilence of
Internet piracy.
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