The entertainment industry really needed this to be about the technology. What they didn't get was a decision that said 'tools that allow people to exchange files freely on the Internet, without permission, are illegal,'
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The ability to spend a million dollars on a video, maybe a million on radio promotion-- that's all dependent on people buying a 17 expression of the product. If people spend 117 of that, then all of these shoulda-been multi-platinum records are underwater. And that's what's happening.Eric Garland
But in the cases where people were downloading four or five or six songs from one work, 10 times out of 10 that album became a big seller at traditional retail. People still sometimes see the CD as a good investment.
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Most people, most of the time, get their music free. And that's not a marketplace. In fact, it directly threatens the concept of the music marketplace.
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Even bands with deep catalogs have hits, and then they have superstar hits. There may be 20 songs from Queen that people know, but really we're talking about two or three that are more popular by orders of magnitude. They're cultural staples. If I had the option to buy 9 songs instead of 12 songs on 'Meet the Beatles,' I might have done that.
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People are getting more free music on mp3s than they're getting on CDs, ... And nearly all those mp3s are illegally downloaded.
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And 10 billion songs per year is a very conservative estimate.
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