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[QUOTE="xgodzillax:1329044"][QUOTE="mattvc:1329026"]The 40 billion download number comes from the International Federation for Information Processing - a non-profit, non-government affiliated agency who study information technology. I apologize if I misrepresented what I was saying - not a "poor product" but one that people don't "give a shit about". It's clearly a product that people still want. There were 1.6 billion legal music purchases in 2011 (that's from soundscan) - the vast majority were single songs, not albums. And 40 billion illegal downloads. The concert ticket business is exceeded $4.5 billion in north america in 2009 - quadruple what it was less than 15 years earlier. It's a product people are willing to spend money on. That sounds like people give a shit to me. Did the record industry play everything correctly? Are they blameless? Hell no. But the "I buy more because of illegal downloading" argument is tired and pointless. Buying some products doesn't justify stealing others. I took a pay cut at my last job (prior to leaving), and my wife recently lost her job because of the state of the industry. And a majority of the blame can be placed on illegal downloading. [/QUOTE] blah blah blah Lars Ulrich blah blah blah Napster blah blah blah soulseek blah blah blah limewire blah blah blah IRC blah blah blah. Fuck music, kill yourself.[/QUOTE]
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