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Bjorktribe wrote:
Also, it's hurting the recording industries growth. If people wouldn't download Tens of thousands of dollars a day, Maybe, just maybe the record industry would say 'OK, We can afford not to charge people ten times the manufacturing cost for these disks.'
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NOT!
The recording industry promised to lower the prices of CDs from their astronomically high entry price in the 80s once they made back their research and development money.
That never happened!
Also the DVD market is just as responsible (if not more) for the declines in record sales as DVD sales are up, up, up and that means the people buying those DVDs are buying less CDs.
When CD sales first were recorded people were buying what they had on vinyl and cassette over again so they had it in the new medium + new records that were coming out.
Well after about 5-10 years everyone had caught up with re-buying their old tunes and were concentrating on the new stuff (and hence an immediate gradual decline in CD sales).
Conveniently enough the RIAA blamed this ALL on Napster AND NOT AT ALL on the information above.
I agree though that stealing is stealing. There's no way around that.
-AlexHall74