Why do they call it the Music Industry?? The music industry spreads far beyond the RIAA and IFPI. The music industry would also consist of people who dont make any money off their music right? So why the hell do they keep calling it that? The RIAA are also terrible for it, calling themselves the music industry when they are not! They are just a business, its like one big union of businesses, just cause it might be the biggest doesnt earn the title "music industry".

And back on topic, How could they possibly make any prediction to music sales? Ok I understand if they knock out some major p2p network that sales might increase but people are getting accustomed to getting their music one way or another through their computer so wouldn't that be a boost for digital sales? And when they say better copy protection, there is no perfect copy protection! and wont ever be, there will always be a way to rip music through software or hardware to mp3 or mpc or whatever. They are living in a dream world! I'd personally like to welcome the Informa Media Group to the 21st Century!

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http://www.movielink.com/ - cool, RIAA - sucks.

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They keep referring to the industry being in a bad way as if their situation isn't in the natural order of things. The digital revolution and the internet have made the RIAA's cash cow go way. They can't force their unfair business model anymore and they are crying about it as if they have a God-given right to always make the same profits for eternity. Their best years profit-wise were made through collective price-fixing. Look around, companies all over have ups and downs and have to adapt to new technology. It's called progression and the RIAA refused to acknowledge it. Piss on them.

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I would like to propose a toast to a painful (but hopefully not too slow) death for the "music industry" of today that we know and hate. The days of cheating artists out of a living and raking customers over the coals must end. May they not be saved...

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