[FYI] Music industry blames Net for all evil

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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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