Despite success in suing people who download music illegally and in reaching deals with personal networking sites like YouTube, the music industry is still bleeding millions of dollars in sales to online piracy.
It is a major issue for an industry that is desperately trying to boost revenue from legal downloads to make up for falling sales of compact discs, which declined 23 percent globally between 2000 to 2006.
To get an idea of the size of the problem, Eric Garland of Web consultants Big Champagne estimates that more than 1 billion digital tracks are illegally traded for free each month.
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The simple fact that the RIAA feels they have to make a statement denying they are losing…..should be a telltale sign that they ARE losing!