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Originally Posted by saoir
I agree Amy.
The Music industry never established the slightest evidence that they actually lost sales due to illegal downloads. For my part several years ago I asked about ten teenage kids my son hung out with about their massive illegal downloads. What I learned was a) they hardly listened to about 90%b of it b) they actually loved having the original CD of the music that they DID love and c) they were spending amazing amounts on real CDs, far more than I imagined. The Music industry suffered a huge downturn in sales in the last 20 years primarily because they have insulted customers with inflated and unjustified pricing (I still see newly released CDs priced at 20 euros !)
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Several studies I've seen, that I am likely to agree with, is that the downturn in the music industry is largely due to the return of singles sales through places like iTunes. Why buy an album full of songs you don't know or don't like, when you really only want one or two?