SCE release Piracy Statement

[Slimebeast]

Kasz216 said:

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).

Besides Kazs, you are not Swedish, you don't know the mentality here. People don't pay unnecessary money for media here when they can get it for free.

Except... I'm not talking against facts, because what i'm talking about is actually proven in studies.  CD sales went down, you know what went up?  Digital Download buys.  The problem was, very few stores existed at the time.  The music Industry is in the exact same shape it was now.  The only difference is that most people perfer to buy MP3s now.

The invention of the MP3s and Mp3 players made CDs obselete.  People wanted MP3s.... and nobody was providing them.  Nobody wanted CDs.  This had jack shit to do with piracy, as can be seen by how well and how much the music industry sales grew with Itunes.

Wrong. Digital sales, no matter if you look short-term or long-term, are nowhere close to replace the loss in retail sales. Overall the music industry has been heavily declining for 10 years.

"The slower digital growth saw overall music sales contract for the 11th year in a row. In the period from 2004 to 2010 the value of the world's recorded music industry has dwindled by 31%."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BNG/is_2011_Jan_21/ai_n56720168/