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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Which ones? Even during a severe global recession UK music industry profits are up 1.4%. Download sales alone are up 50% on last year. The massive jump in download sales doesn't really indicate a widespread piracy problem to me. Like you say, why would someone pay for something if they already downloaded it for free?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8645878.stm |
The article you quote says that this small rise follows 5 years of declining sales and that the market is "constrained by competition from illegal downloads". Perhaps this indicates that the decline has bottomed out, but 5 years of falling sales is not indicative of an industry that's doing well.