Music Sales Soar Despite Piracy
The PR people within the music industry are masters of spin. The music industry isn’t doing so badly as they claim. In fact, year after year more music is being sold.
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The PR people within the music industry are masters of spin. They can take any type of data and make the public believe that piracy is killing their business. For years they have fought against this imaginary enemy, and every press release issued is filled with complaints about illegal downloading. We’re not going to argue about the exact impact of piracy in this article, but we do want to balance out the music industry’s propaganda a little bit. By doing so we hope to show that the music industry isn’t doing so badly as they claim. In fact, year after year more music is being sold.
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