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Canada No Pirate Nation: Global Leader In Music Download Sales
An anonymous reader writes "The IFPI, the global recording industry association, recently released
its Recording
Industry in Numbers 2012,
which provides detailed sales data from countries around the world.
While CRIA talks
about
'rebuilding the marketplace,' the industry's own data indicates that
Canada already stands among the global leaders in digital music sales.
Michael Geist digs into the
data and finds that Canadians purchased more single track
downloads than Germany or Japan, and more than double the sales in
France, despite the fact that each of those countries has far larger
populations. In fact, Canadian sales were larger than all the sales
from Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, the
Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden combined. Not only is the Canadian
digital market far larger than virtually every European
market, it continues to grow faster than the U.S. digital music
market as well. In fact, the Canadian digital music market has grown
faster than the U.S. market for the past six consecutive years."
considering how many laws the write for us, I think its more than money, they seek ultimate power.
RI is like homeless bums. You give them 20$ and they say, 'got any more?' and move on looking for more.
I know people who pirated movies or video games the first time that were there on opening day to buy the sequels. People will support what they know is awesome because they want it to continue and they know that it will not continue if the makers can't feed their families and pay mortgages.
They have rather less interest in keeping rich executives rich. Or for that matter, even in keeping rich artists rich.
They're actually worse than homeless bums. They're more like predatory gypsy contractors. Granny had one come to her house to say he'd been working up the street and noticed a little problem with her roof. By the time they were done she'd been bilked out of almost $3000.00. Of course, you should have see the look on their faces when I walked up to them (i'm 6'3" and 250 pounds of just rolled down off the mountain ugly.) and told them that Granny had asked me to talk to them about when they were going to get all the little things they'd started beyond fixing the roof done.
That's what we need to deal with the recording industry, something big, ugly and with a clear sense of right and wrong and not some wobbly moral compass that depends on how much money it can smell coming form a certain direction.