| Slimebeast said: You are talking against facts. The whole music industry sales in the world dropped to half in less than ten years due to people downloading MP3s. People simply don't buy CDs anymore and the digital sales from iTunes and Spotify can't offset that loss in income. I used to buy tons of CDs in the 90's (250 CDs in total from 1991 until Napster got widespread in the year 2000, you do the math) but in the last decade I've downloaded all my music for free. (same with movies, I have this epic collection of 7 or 8 DVDs but none of them is newer than 2002 as that's when my broadband got fast enough. This correlates with the clear downward trend of movie DVD sales in USA and elsewhere we've seen in the past few years). |
Same here, people don't pay unncessesary money on media when they can get if for free. To sight an example, the local movie industry here is actually being helped by the government to combat piracy. In fact, some time ago, the senate, yup, THE SENATE!! HOLY CRAP!!! THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THE FREAKING COUNTRTY!!! actually led an operation to confescate and destroy priated / bootleg dvds of local movies. how crazy is that?! instead of trying to upraise the living standards of the poorest of the poor the damn senate desided that it was more important to protect the money of the already wealth actors and actresses! SOB!!
