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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
But there really is little doubt that recordings are suffering (contrary to KevinH's claims), or that piracy has reduced sales and drastically slowed the adoption of paid downloads of music.
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Well piracy had a good 10 year headstart on legal downloads because of music industry resistance, but I don't really see how you can say it is responsible for any lost sales. It's a completely different demographic. If something isn't there to download nobody is going to rush out and buy it, they will just download something else instead. It's like saying if a song isn't played on the radio everyone will go out and buy it instead of just listening to whatever else is played on the radio. If anything it is more likely to increase sales.