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Record sales down 4 years straight







Record sales down 4 years straight

Record sales down 4 years straight 04/11/2004 07:00 AM

"Fourth consecutive annual drop blamed squarely on illegal file sharing" says vnunet. "The 2003 decline reflects consumers' continuing practice to download songs illegally from the Internet" says the Miami Herald. "Global music sales had another difficult year in 2003 under the combined effects of digital and physical piracy and competition from other entertainment products," the Hollywood Reporter parrots. "Global sales of recorded music slid again in 2003 as piracy and illegal downloading continued to inflict damage," Newsday harps. "Industry executives blame European consumers for burning music onto blank compact discs or downloading the music for free off the Internet rather than buy from the local record shop" says Forbes. The The Moscow Times claims "Pirates Taking a Toll on $32Bln Music Industry". Not a single one of them mentioned the four year boycott of the major labels, which started right before the slump in sales started.




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