RIAA Sales Compared to Download Statistics

OneInEveryCrowd writes "According to an article at SFGate, although the recent crackdown and lawsuits have caused a 22% drop in downloading, the drop in CD sales actually accelerated during the same period. My own response to the RIAA crackdown was to get a Netflix account, get into fansubs, and swear off CD purchases for life. If this was mainstream behavior CD sales would have dropped to zero. I was still pleased to see that many people responded in a similar fashion though." An EMI executive has a piece giving the standard industry view, but this piece about Universal slashing CD prices may be more telling.

Comments

Re:RIAA Price Cuts

[Planesdragon]

Odd, $8 less than all the other CDs on the rack sounds like a great price for that.

Oh, wait. We have to hate metallica because they're semi-luddites who told their agent to stop Napster's trading their unfinished music. sorry, I forgot. ;)

Re:CD Sales

[Eric Damron]

"Record stores generally sell only "music" blanks, which sends a tax to RIAA through the American Home Recording Act. You have full permission to burn a music CD borrowed from a friend onto a music disk, by law."

This is of course total bullshit. Burning a friends album onto a "music" blank in no way lessens your crime of copyright infringement.

I can't believe that anyone modded this comment up. Bull shit. Total an utter nonsense.

[OT] Re:Well it worked elsewhere

[bigjocker]

Besides being completely off-topic, the latest Iron Maiden release can't even wash Metallica's St Anger socks ...

St Anger rocks, it's pure Metallica, and is not made for IM sissies.