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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Mr. Ploppy:
4) And yes, as you pointed out, approximately 1 out of 20 downloads are infringing.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
■Tens of billions of illegal files were swapped in 2007. The ratio of unlicensed tracks downloaded to legal tracks sold is about 20 to 1.
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You might want to re-read the proportion he was citing.
And yet the music industry still manage to increase their profitability year-on-year.
It's a vicious circle: as they become less and less willing to take any kind of risk on interesting artists, music fans (understandably) want their product less and less.
Hopefully, because it's far more feasible to self-publish, we won't see exactly the same phenomenon across the board in publishing.