the REAL reason the RIAA is selling less CDs...

[Lemon[H]ead]

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_sto...d=3654%204&rel

seems that they're releasing less CDs. What a bunch of idiots. I love this quote though.

The RIAA appears to be imploding without any assistance at all, under the weight of its own logic.

IMO 99% of people aren't buying less CDs, they're buying the same as they normally would (but occasionally downloading tracks). But some people take it too far with the downloading of music.

[blackwatch]

the real reason is that i just spent $80 on 4 CDs. when i have to pay $25 for an import then it gets way to expensive to buy new music.

[Target]

Very interesting article there LemonHead. If I understand it correctly, its amazing that only 3000 copies would have needed to be sold (had the RIAA continued with the same level of production) in order for them to continue their growth numbers. That to me is a really small number of sales per title.

Its nice that someone was actually able to gather numbers and quantify it in this way. If accurate, it sheds a whole new light on the situation for me.

I've never really thought that P2P file sharing did the damage to the RIAA that it claimed, and believed that many of the downloads people did were for music they wouldn't have purchased regardless. They only obtained it in this manner exactly because it was free. Hence the theory that no sales were actually "lost" because the P2P downloader was never going to purchase the music anyway.....so the "potential" for the sale never existed.

[Mike]

Well it has to be hard for the RIAA to keep pumping out CD's when the quality of music itself has dropped. Only so many boy bands can be made before the world is tired of them.

It's strange but out of about 10 regular adults I know. My dad's car is the only one that can play a burned CD. (Custom Head Unit) The rest of them all have stock CD players in their car and won't play burned CD's. Although the RIAA won't go to court trying to say that more and more people are listening to music in their cars.

[Undeadlord]

Target,

I agree 100% .. If I download any music, its music from CD's that were stolen from me on a business trip .. or the occasional random song from my childhood. Now if the RIAA could come up with "Brendan's Childhood Greatest Hits" I would buy it, but I am not buying 10 CD's to get 10 songs I liked. I don't think the "loss" is really there. Somepeople might be doing it, but I think a larger majority are downloading songs they wouldn't shell out money for normally, err well I would payy 99 cents for one song like that but I am not pay 13, 15 or 18 bucks for a CD where I want one song.


Undeadlord