IFPI blames everyone else for declining CD sales

[waider]

Piracy! Economics! Videos! DVDs!
Guys, how about "We're releasing too much crap"? Also a quote from Jay Berman:

I think the long-term secular decline has just about come to a conclusion.

"secular decline"? Did the clergy not get on the filesharing bandwagon with the rest of us or something? (actually, I note from the dictionary definiton that the word can also mean, simultaneously,

• once per century/age
• existing through a century/age
• long-term indefinite duration.

Which is my "something new" learned for the day.)

Comments

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Didja hear about the recently-released Harvard study showing that the effect of downloading on CD sales was, well, nil?

I can look for a link for you if you want.

[waider.livejournal.com]

Had it sitting on my laptop for a coupla days unread, and ended up reading the various partisan synopses instead. Summary: BoingBoing et. al. say, "we told you so", RIAA et. al.
say "it's just one report by two unknowns, we have dozens that contradict it by People You've Heard Of, such as this Gartner one, etc." Net result IMHO: status quo maintained. Alas.