Downloads Help 'Record' Sales

[Mels_Smileys45]

2004: A happy-news year for music industry

"It wasn't a huge rebound, but in 2004 the U.S. music industry enjoyed its first positive year since 2000.

Overall unit sales (also including singles and downloads of track and albums) were up 19%, from 687 million to 817 million — the first time since 2000 that plateau has been reached. Most of that jump, however, was in downloaded tracks (which generate far less revenue than CD albums): 141 million tracks were downloaded from pay Internet sites. The 2003 total for track downloads was 19.2 million, but SoundScan monitored them only during the year's second half."

USA Today

[infringer]

Hehe,

It does bring much to question with the onslaught of lawsuits on folks as to weather they are loosing more money to folks or gaining more money because of the free advertisement these networks supply. I know I have boughten more content as they call it since filesharing then I would have normally just because I wanted to use it for trading as well as have it...

Finally, it couldn't have came from a better source then the media which degrades the folks using P2P realeasing the statements constantly put forth by the corperate control freaks we know as the MPAA/RIAA...

Finally someone picked up an honest editor who wasnt going to be bought out by the RIAA/MPAA and finally for once we get the credit we deserve as advertisers of sorts...

Great read and great find Mels_Smileys45,

The proof is all in black and white weather or not we call our justice system a system for built for justice should be based upon how they respond to the truth behind the matter.

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[Malicious Intent]

Sounds like the effect of lawsuits and fake files is kicking in.

That proves the doubters wrong.

Good job RIAA :gj

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Sounds like the effect of lawsuits and fake files is kicking in.

That proves the doubters wrong.

Good job RIAA

Roflmao

Now that was a comment that lived up to your nickname strictly malacious intent.

Is it me or was that sarcasam i detected in that comment...

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