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CD SALES CONTINUE TO DROP

DAN AQUILANTE, NY POST - The record industry is all shook up. On a slide
since 1999 (the year of Backstreet, Britney, Ricky Martin and Shania)
labels are down another 3.4 percent, to 281 millions units in the first
half of 2006. . . The number of downloads more than doubled this year -
to 13 million units - but the digital trade accounts for just 4.5
percent of the market. . . Cassette music sales fell a whopping 54
percent in the first half of 2006

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/music_rocks__but_whos_listening_
entertainment_dan_aquilante.htm


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WHY CD SALES ARE DROPPING

READER M OFFERS this comment on the drop in CD sales: "

||| Because too many of us have taken the pledge, and will not buy any
item when a royalty will be paid to an RIAA or MPAA member. Do without,
rather than provide funds for the entertainment industry to continue to
purchase rights stealing legislation. If you must have music or movies
from one of these wretched outfits, then buy it used.

- Because too many of us realize that the prices on CDs are grossly
inflated. A whole two hour movie DVD usually costs less than a CD of its
soundtrack. What sense does that make?

- Because too many of us have decided that the movies and music that is
being produced today, is generally of very low quality. Not worth the
time to sit through, unless someone pays us for the time and the
boredom.

- Because we don't want the entertainment industry to install spyware
and malware that will wreck our PCs, and secretly report information
about us to the industry. |||