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The article cites the decline in music sales, but ignores the fact that a large part of the music sales in the 90s was people buying CDs of albums they already
by metageek 16y ago
The article cites the decline in music sales, but ignores the fact that a large part of the music sales in the 90s was people buying CDs of albums they already owned--an artificial bubble which burst independently of any increase in illegal copying.
- jimbokun 16y agoYour exact point happens to be addressed in an article linked to from the article under discussion: http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/02/news/companies/napster_music_industry/ http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/02/news/companies/napster_music... "It's also a bit unfair to compare the 2000s with the 1990s, since the '90s enjoyed an unnatural sales boost when consumers replaced their cassette tapes and vinyl records en masse with CDs." "But industry insiders and experts argue that the main culprit for the industry's massive decline was the growing popularity of digital music." Also: "Last decade was the first ever in which sales were lower going out than coming in."
- oiujyhgtfrt 16y agoThe music industries real problem is not having a new format that they can resell you all the same albums on for 5x the price. Or it could just be piracy! For example UK cinema attendances fell from 1.6Bn/year in the 1940s to 55M/year in the early 80s - this was entirely sue to people seeing the future of being able to download movies - and not due to the crap films produced in the 70s and 80s.