The record industry's trade group said the value of shipments of all music at the midpoint of 2004 had climbed nearly 4 percent compared to the previous year. The industry has shipped 10 percent more CDs to retail outlets than last year, showing a strong increase in demand.
But that growth does not mean that the industry can let up in its years-long legal attacks on file swapping and other digital copying, executives said.
"We are rising out of a deep hole and still have a long way to go," RIAA Chief Executive Mitch Bainwol said. "Piracy, both online and on the street, continues to hit the music community hard, and thousands have lost their jobs because of it."
The statistics are likely fuel new rounds of speculation about the effect of Internet swapping--and new digital download sales--on the music business.
The music industry's balance sheets have been hard hit over the past four years, with steep, consecutive year-over-year declines in sales. The trends have led to widespread layoffs, consolidation and shrinking budgets for development of new acts.
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- In the past few years the RIAA has been complaining that sales are down because of p2p--BULL. My family of 7 used to buy 20 to 30 cd's a year until the RIAA started their strongarm and nazi regime tac... (Read the rest)
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Music Industry Propaganda
bidemytime | 10/20/04
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Are you Crazy?????????
Hard Cider | 10/20/04
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Funny
bidemytime | 10/21/04
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Couldn't be..
jheine | 10/20/04
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gee a new p2p applications and sales go up - lol
V Sanders | 10/21/04
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media companies want to sell new formats, not new media
V Sanders | 10/21/04
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The nail on the head
Hillbilly_z | 10/21/04
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RIAA sales
lone stranger_z | 10/23/04
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