The UK record industry celebrates its best ever year for album sales, with 237 million sold.
But doesn’t that rather explode the myth that illegal downloads are killing the industry?
Many of us have argued that “risk free” downloading actually exposes you to much music you wouldn’t have normally purchased. And if you really like it, you’ll probably buy the CD anyway.
I was reading Michael Wolff’s excellent Autumn of the Moguls recently and he discusses the state of the music industry.
“Everybody can’t be an outlaw. When everybody does it, it’s normal rather than aberrant behaviour. It’s not the consumer who is on the wrong side of the law, it’s the entertainment industry that’s on the wrong side of economic laws”
Yep. And it doesn’t seem to be hurting the industry anyway. Still, I don’t suppose for a moment that they’ll stop suing kids.
Tom Hume was writing about a friend of his who’s being sued because his kids were downloading – the poor chap didn’t even know what file sharing was, let along that his kids were doing it. And they rejected his offer of £400 ($750) and are demanding the full £2,000 ($3,800).
It’s madness, suing people like this.
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