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RIAA Not Losing as They Claim?
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Posted by: TotalRecall
George Ziemann at MacWizards Music (an independant label) has written an article on the RIAA's supposed twist of the numbers regarding their sales:
So the record industry cut their inventory (and artist investment) by 25 percent and sales only dropped 4.1 percent, even though the economy is at rock bottom. There were almost 12,000 fewer new releases for the consumer to choose from in 2001 than 1999. The record companies are making more money per release than ever.
Up until two years ago, modems were too slow to download music. Duh. Did anyone ask these consumers if they were downloading major releases or freely uploaded Independent music? If it was the latter, that's exactly what we want the consumer to do. If piracy is the problem, why is it that sales didn't start declining until AFTER the RIAA had Napster shut down?
Check out the full article here.
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