On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:12:48AM -0000, Nick King wrote:
Surely, the reason for the fall in CD sales is that there isn't that many new artists around nowadays, the charts are full of manufactured Pop Idol/Star/Rivals/etc, independent labels have been bought up by majors, etc?
Yeah, Stuart, you and your Fame Academy We know your game ;-)
I know that there are people out there who don't buy vinyl/CD's and *DO* just download MP3's, but don't go and blame a fairly large percentage fall in record sales on people with PC's downloading MP3's! I mean there's a whole load of people out there who still don't have the bandwidth/time/knowledge to download MP3's, so surely the whole percentage fall can't be attributed to people who download this stuff!
That's one of my big gripes, everyone is being punished for the fact that some people are breaking the law. I am fairly sure that more money is lost through bootleggers in the far east (where bootlegging is BIG business, and very organised) than through mp3s and p2p networks, and I'd bet you bread that _whatever_ DRM is used, the far east will crack it quicker than you can list all the KLF's pseudonyms. jon -- "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne