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17 Million People Stopped Buying CDs In 2008
Houston 2600 sends along an Ars Technica writeup on the continuing downward trend in the traditional music business: NPD's annual survey found that 17 million CD customers dropped out last year. Among the good news is that streaming services such as Pandora are growing fast. "While overall music sales were up 10 percent in 2008, the year saw a drop not only in CD sales, but also in the number of customers actually purchasing music. But according to a new report, the act of listening to music is actually on the rise. ... NPD's annual Digital Music Study found that there were 17 million fewer CD customers in 2008 than in past years. CD sales have been dropping for quite some time, and while 1.5 billion songs were sold digitally last year, the number of Internet users paying for digital music only increased by 8 million in 2008."
...to mortgage-backed securities -- they get a better rate of return.
I was born listening to 8-tracks, and I will die listening to 8-tracks. And I'll NEVER give them up, dammit!!!
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FTFA:
and while 1.5 billion songs were sold digitally last year, the number of Internet users paying for digital music only increased by 8 million in 2008.
Man, I wish I had only 8 million more paying customers. Hell, I'd settle with 5 million.
candy from crippled blind penniless orphaned cute puppies
Is there a torrent of that?
that new amazing thing called going outside. I hear the 3D is amazing.
Oh yeah, heard of it. The gameplay is very difficult to understand when it comes with interacting with NPCs (wish it comes with a manual), but some players succeed and are given access to body surfing the NPCs.
Yeah, the 3D is amazing, but what people want is good content.
I have yet to see an orc or kobold, not to mention a dragon.
On the plus side, I suppose I could play:
Grand Theft Auto: Outside.
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Pandora doesn't even work in the UK for IP reasons...
Maybe it will work on IP6.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
According to the RIAA, music pirates are now responsible for 93% of all the world's nun rapes each year.
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Sales of wax cylinders, reel-to-reel tapes, and 8-track tapes continue to drop. When questioned about the drop of new wax cylinder users from 9 to 7, the RIAA stated that the deaths of those two consumers were indeed not from thier advanced ages of over 100, but rather caused by "Pirates" attempting to hurt their profit margins.
The RIAA was optimistic about the increase in clay pot recordings with the recent fad in "accoustic archeology" and hoped to once again start producing new releases in this format in Q4 2009. Questions concerning the validity of such archaic technology were pushed aside with "If the format fails, it because of the Pirates".
and yet the RIAA says that the industry is loosing $$
They're freeing up money?
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I'm 25 :(
Now get off... Get off my l... No, I won't say it!
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or that new amazing thing called going outside. I hear the 3D is amazing.
Nah. It's totally overrated. First, it's *way* overpriced. Second, the developers couldn't even agree on how to create it, so it's full of bugs and littered with bits of trash left-over from the process. Additionally, there are just things that the AI does that will make you smack your forehead in disgust. And some of the designs are just crazy. The platypus object, for example - multiple inheritance gone crazy.
I'd recommend waiting until the next version.
I have to say this is one area that the RIAA is right. I'm scared to walk the streets at night because the roaming nun problem.
Don't anthropomorphize computers. They *hate* that.