guardian-2009
"Praise the music industry or bury it?"
- music labels didnt invent iTunes or "comes with music" they are independent
- music sales held up and kept a steady constant despite the recession,- excellent health, and creativity along with releasing some great music- however, more and more people are downloading online illegally
- BPI- by Jupiter Research shows the recording businesses will loose £200 million in revenue due to illegal downloading in 2009
- 2007-2012, cumulated effect will be £1.2 billion- no evidence to support this however.
- industry revenue fell by 5.3% in 2008
- Billy Bragg- "do we want ISP's to penalise our fans?" record companies are trying to pass responsibility for tracking illegal filesharing on the internet on to ISP's
- ISP's are trying to detect illegal downloaders
- 50 legal ways to obtain music- helped labels get 14% of revenue back (2008)
- This has a graduated response- the goal is not to sue or suspend or disconnect fans but the objective is to encourage legal sites
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