Technological advancement (eg: music software, cheap HD cameras, etc.) and significantly better distribution platforms (eg: the internet) can account for an inc

Technological advancement (eg: music software, cheap HD cameras, etc.) and significantly better distribution platforms (eg: the internet) can account for an increase in production... they need to account for that, otherwise its kinda nonsensical to say what they say. But then, it seems this is ideologically driven from the beginning. It is much like the "studies" in the 1990s, published by microsoft (and you see them now from google) that say Microsoft (or android) is winning. (despite, for instance, Samsung never giving sales details, and when they were forced to by the recent lawsuit, it turned out they were pitiful... so you have press claiming huge sales to further and ideological position that "Android is winning" (and thus "open" works, even though Android is no more open than iOS) using essentially made up data and then other sources repeat it to the point where large numbers of (frankly, uninformed) people believe it. This is how propaganda works.