A Bleak Future For Physical Media Purchases?

KevReedUK writes "The folks at ZDNet are eulogising over the upcoming death of physical media music sales. They refer to the noticeable drop in physical sales of albums whilst digital sales continue climbing (albeit at a reduced rate). Their central argument is that 'the music industry was pillaged by piracy and competition from other forms of entertainment such as video games ... [2007] marked the lowest tally and the steepest decline since Nielsen began publishing estimates based on point-of-sales data in 1993, a Nielsen representative said. The peak year in that time was 2000, when sales reached 785 million units.'"

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I Guess Zonk Is Finished Crying Over BluRay

[Anonymous Coward]

After a year long FUDfest against the winning BluRay format you would have thought poor little Zonk would have been a man a showed his face yesterday. Instead he must have been home crying in his pillow all day long.

Pathetic.

I guess we now have a preview of what the 2008 Zonk FUD is going to look like now...

Eulogising?

[Anonymous Coward]

If only Christmas came a few times a year for the fast-fading U.S. music industry.

It seems to me that the tone of the article is far from what might be described with a word that translates literally to something close to good speaking. Try not to use words you don't understand, k? That is especially so for all of you other illiterate morons who completely misuse words like deprecate in, what I assume, is an attempt to appear erudite.

IT: ruining the English language one word at a time.

Deprecate: 1. trans. To pray against (evil); to pray for deliverance from; to seek to avert by prayer. arch.
You mean - Obsolete: 1. No longer used or practised; outmoded, out of date.

Eulogy: 1. A speech or writing in commendation of the character and services of a person, or the qualities of a thing
You mean - ?