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Yet Another Look at CD Sales

Posted by michael on from the blowing-smoke dept.

citizenkeller writes "Dan Bricklin, of VisiCalc fame, has published a very interesting essay on "CD sales, downloading, and burning". In his own words: 'Given the slight dip in CD sales despite so many reasons for there to be a much larger drop, it seems that the effect of downloading, burning, and sharing is one of the few bright lights helping the music industry with their most loyal customers. Perhaps the real reason for some of the drop in sales was the shutdown of Napster and other crackdowns by the music industry.'"

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  1. Re:An analogy (sort of) by molli123 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You are just selling white bread ? Are you a little bit racist :-)

    Micha !

  2. Re:How about.. by AVryhof · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Woohoo! Lapster!!! Can someone please start uploading Lap-dances here too!

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  3. Re:Its not just the economy... by Oliver+Wendell+Jones · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would like to announce that I am now accepting PayPal donations to hunt down this particular AC and personally driver over his Xbox with a large vehicle.

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  4. Re:Its not just the economy... by Oliver+Wendell+Jones · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "driver over"?

    Maybe somebody should run me over and put me out of my misery...

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