More BS from RIAA

[Nemesis77]

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WASHINGTON (August 26) 2002 -- Both online and physical music piracy continue to impact the music industry midway through 2002, with a comprehensive new survey of public practices providing the strongest evidence to date that illegal Internet downloading is displacing sales and helping explain a seven percent drop in CD shipments and a 69.9 percent increase in counterfeit/pirate optical disc seizures, according to new analysis and data released today by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, CD shipments dropped 7 percent in the first six months of 2002, while seizures of counterfeit CDs soared by 69.9 percent. The first-half decline in CD shipments comes on top of last year?s overall 5.3 percent drop.

Together, the findings from both surveys show a continuing fall-off in CD sales?and in the process decisively debunk the theory that stealing music online is somehow good for the music business.

More behind the link :disgust:

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

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hehehehe

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

BTW, maybe it's because THEIR MUSIC SUCKS AND WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A RECESSION!

i've discovered loads of better music because of online songs, and hell, more than half of them aren't even affiliated with the riaa

 

[Czar]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26815.html
The Register rips them a new one

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n1
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hehehehe

Works for me

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n1
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hehehehe

Works for me

I think he was pointing out the AT effect...

But why can't the RIAA realize that they aren't going to stop file sharing, they're just making themselves look like idiots.

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: bryce

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n1
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hehehehe

Works for me

I think he was pointing out the AT effect...

Or The Register-effect .

 

[Gunbuster]

<<while seizures of counterfeit CDs soared by 69.9 percent.>>

Dang I wont be able to sell cd's on the street corner anymore

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Gunbuster
<<while seizures of counterfeit CDs soared by 69.9 percent.>>

Dang I wont be able to sell cd's on the street corner anymore

23rd street and 54th

Trust me.

 

[Goosemaster]

 

[Sundog]

What a load...:disgust:

 

[ChefJoe]

Among people who said their downloading from file-sharing services had increased over the past six months, fully 41 percent reported purchasing less music now than six months ago, compared to only 19 percent who said they were purchasing more music.



I prefer being able to eat a nice meal over listening to the latest Nellyville CD. Sounds like the airlines, "why can't we make more money while selling less".