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Australian Record Industry Has Best Year Ever

Posted by michael on from the darn-pirates dept.

Hecatonchires writes "ARIA (Australian Record Industry Assoc.) had their best year ever, but are fudging the figures because they run counter to their anti-filesharing arguments."

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  1. Lovely acronym by modder · · Score: 4, Funny

    aria for the record industry.

    1. Re:Lovely acronym by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny



      They should have a web site son.net

  2. Re:Keep in mind by beakerMeep · · Score: 4, Funny
    AFAIK no-one has ever argued that file-sharing helps record sales.

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  3. Despair, Pirate Scum !!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Listen now, ye yellow-livered one-eyed pirate scum ! Ye thought ye had em down, didn't ye ? Bu they're still rising, ain't them ? Ye can't keep them Music Empire down, can ye ?!?

    Look at these numbers and despair, ye pirate scum !

  4. Quantity not quality ? by Space+cowboy · · Score: 3, Funny


    Given the crap nature of 99% of current music, either Aussies have *really* bad taste, or the quantity of crap being rained from above must have gone through the roof...

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  5. This just in! by mrpuffypants · · Score: 4, Funny

    Record labels lie! Details at 11!

  6. Re:Keep in mind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    AFAIK no-one has ever argued that file-sharing helps record sales.

    Yes it does.

    Now someone has. Ha.

  7. Re:Oh, come on by FullCircle · · Score: 4, Funny

    It couldn't POSSIBLY be that we are having trouble paying rent or buying food due to the economy.

    Yep, it's gotta be those darn pirates.

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  8. You jump too quickly to conclusions. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not because it's their best year ever that they're not losing money. They have good mathematical models to predict how much they expect to sell on a given year. If they're under their expectations, they're "losing" money. Being the best year ever doesn't mean much, really. Consider a company that had losses in its 5 first years. Then the 6th year they get 10$. Who cares if it's their best year, it's worth nothing!

    If file-sharing really didn't affect them, they wouldn't bother going through all the trouble they are right now.

  9. Re:Bargain Bin Browsers by Rogerborg · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's a good point. The Bargain Bin is just like filesharing, in that it violates the exclusive rights of the owner to control copying and distribution, and they receive no reward from it.

    No... wait a second...

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  10. an appropriate reference by rock_climbing_guy · · Score: 3, Funny
    an appropriate reference for this story.

    'nuff said

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  11. Re:Keep in mind by kir · · Score: 1, Funny

    So that means I must be brand spanking new.

    716990 usually comes before 741764, but I could be wrong about that.

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  12. maybe... by enrico_suave · · Score: 2, Funny

    maybe a dingo ate their "file sharing reduces sales argument"

    e.

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  13. Re:Copy Control by ryanwright · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't rip the CD to my MP3 player. These are the two devices I use to listen to music.

    So take it back to the store, demand your money back, and go download it.

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