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Old 02-02-2011, 02:29 PM   #327
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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.
I wouldn't exactly call £100million profit in those "declining" years indicative of an industry in trouble either. But if it is all related to unauthorised downloads, wouldn't a 50% increase in authorised downloads indicate a reduction in piracy rather than a rise?
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