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Originally Posted by nekokami
The only studies so far that we have to draw on were done in the music industry, and those studies have failed to find evidence that music piracy is actually cutting into sales of music.
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The revenue of the music industry is in a steady decline. Every year new lows are being reached. But at the same time music consumption does not drop, does not at all. In fact people today listen to much much more music than 10 years before, thanks to the abundance of mp3 players and other music devices such as cell phones and PDAs.
So if less music is sold (on physical discs as well as online) but more music is consumed, what might be the reason for it? A lot of music is not being bought but downloaded illegally. There might be some sites like mp3parks.com that actually sell music but remain on the borderline between legal and illegal activity, but certainly nobody would really suggest these grey sites are accountable for the difference between officially sold and actually consumed music.
Alan