MusicFan

CV UK

I.T. / Music Production

What about the music industries costs?

15% of all sales online?

thats 15% of goods that do no require printed artwork, cd cases etc

15% of sales, but pure profit.

The figures that they tout for illegal downloads, does this just encompass "chart" downloads, or anything that has a file extension of .mp3 etc?

There is a lot of music produced worldwide that does not and never will reach the charts and is not produced by the big industry labels.

Do their figures account for this? I think not.

Perhaps the "free" trade of music online is turning people to listening to quality music instead of the pop churn that is spoon fed to us through the media.

Its still illegal, dont get me wrong, but it allows people to listen to music they possibly would not have known existed, so also breeds a new market.

They cant stop the exchange of mp3's online anyway, how would they do this?

whats to stop people changing the file names to something else, placing in zip files etc, transfering over instant message?

Futile efforts, nothing more.