"Jenn" wrote in message
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"Arny Krueger" wrote:
"Jenn" wrote in message
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Eeyore wrote:
Arny Krueger wrote:
Most recent RIAA figures show that there has been a significant drop
in
retail sales of all physical formats:
http://www.riaa.com/news/newsletter/...midYrStats.pdf
SACD down by 44.6%
DVD-A down by 35.1%
Vinyl down by 32.3%
CD was down by 14.3%
Note that the list of biggest losers was led by SACD, DVD-A and
then
vinyl.
Contrast this with Harry's hype about booming sales of Hi-Rez formats.
IIRC, Harry's point was concerning number of titles available.
Typical Jenn - she tries to change the subject.
The traditional CD format, which amounted for about 99% of all
sales,
outperformed the rest.
CD sales went up when Napster and the like were free.
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There's no evidence that I'm aware of that any bump in sales was due to
Napster.
Knowing about the sales pop during the Napster days was a matter of
having
one's ears open at the time.
Exactly.
Admission that you were out of the loop at the time Jenn?
Music has been free as long as there has been radio. Recorded music has
been
available at terrific discounts from record store prices as long as there
have been home audio recorders.
Of course.
I remember taping radio and LPs back in the
late 50s.
As do I, but in the late 60s and early 70s.
Therefore there's nothing new about people bootlegging popular
music. All Napster did is decrease the time and effort required for
bootleggng, at the cost of having music in a format that might be harder
to
listen to when you were away from your PC. There may have also been SQ
issues, some pretty severe.
I think that you've understate this case. The SQ issue is a MAJOR
difference between recording off the radio with a cassette recorder
(what most people had) and a digital download.
Again Jenn avoids relevant facts that have been presented (example home
recording from consumer media with excellent quality). After all, where do
most of the MP3s come from from consumers transcribing recordings they have
purchased or borrowed?
A lot of people learned about music that was new to them via MP3
downloads
and exchanges, and ran right out and bought the CDs so they could enjoy
the
music bette. Guilty as charged!
As I said, there's no solid evidence that this happened in large numbers.
Now Jenn tries to raise the ante of proof from her not-yet-admitted
ignorance of relevant facts to "solid evidence".
What is clear is that when you talked to college aged people
(particularly before iTunes and other pay-per-song services) is that
their hard drives were full of illegal tracks, and that they almost
never bought music anymore.
Contrary to some people's apparent belief, college folks don't define the
market for music. College students are only a minority of all people who
buy
music.
Last I looked, the 10-24 demographic was the largest segment of the
recorded music buying population.
Now Jenn expands college age range to 10-24. Has she no shame?
They often don't have a lot of disposable income.
No kidding, but this doesn't entitle them to steal music, of course.
Is it stealing music to listen to the radio?
Am I stealing from the History Channel when I time-shift some of their
programs?
Is it stealing music when people make their own music videos from commercial
audio recordings and post them on YouTube?