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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
• The article failed to mention that music sales in the Internet era have utterly tanked and are unlikely to recover. Sales are down nearly 50% since its peak in 1999, including the increase in digital sales. No one has any hard numbers on how much of this loss is directly attributable to piracy, but it is naïve to assume piracy is not a major contributing factor to the decline.
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While piracy will account for a share of that decline, it is even more naive for the record industry to try and make the claims that they do that it is the sole reason for the decline when the reality is that quite a lot of the decline will have come from other demands on disposable income in combination with the seeming lack of interest in discovering new acts rather than cashing in on some random reality tv show contestant.