p2pnet - rss feed: BPI admits CD sales booming!
p2pnet news | Music:- Despite harassing their customers with bogus threats and lawsuits and saying they’re, “stealing music”, and false claims that file sharing is killing the music industry, the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) publicly states the labels do in fact sell more CDs today than they did 10 years ago.
BPI ‘members’ include Warner Music Group, EMI, Sony BMG, and Universal Music Group.
During an interview with BPI rep Matt Philips (right) and music critic Neil McCormick, BBC News reported CD sales are in a “downward spiral”.
But, Philips responded (see video below), “We do in fact sell more CDs than we did ten years ago, and I suspect there’ll be a lot of albums sold on CD [in future] as well.”
And this is confirmed on the BPI website which states >>>
Increasing the number of CDs bought by occasional customers is one of the reasons why we sell more CD albums in the UK than we did a decade ago. - BPI Chief Executive Geoff Taylor
Their own figures also show CD sales of BRIT (UK equivalent of Grammys) nominated artists, ” … give the overall market a boost as CD sales are increase (sic) by 25%.
“Furthermore, 2007 saw the overall market increase by 9%.”
A recent BPI press release also states, ” … (CD) sales remain 26% higher than those recorded a decade ago.”
While the BPI claims, “The industry continues to innovate in developing new online and mobile business models,” the truth is actually explained in the interview succinctly by McCormick:
“If you’re putting something on the internet, it doesn’t cost anything. Anybody can put anything anywhere. The music business is convulsed by fear and excitement about what that means. (They are) a rabbit in the headlights of the internet.”
Wabbit hunting season is open.
‘Nuf said.
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March 25th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Ya! Right!
Continue the boycott folks they are almost on the ground!
March 25th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
You don’t make money by sueing your customers, don’t the RIAA know that??!!!
March 26th, 2008 at 10:07 am
two reasos
the music is better than the usa crap-rap
the customers are not being sued
March 26th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
who told you that fairytale?
obviously, you didn’t read my article, which contains ONLY true, verifiable facts. BPI has 400 members, including the four majors - which just so happen to be the same four majors that belong to the RIAA.
of course they’re suing their customers in the UK. they even boast about it on the BPI website in a faq and press releases:
“The BPI began a rolling programme of legal actions against illegal uploaders in October 2004.” (and those they consider the “worst offenders”.)
that’s according to a filesharing faq pdf they have, which was last updated in 2006, but is also referred to in more recent press releases.
so they sue uploaders (who are also customers). and what constitutes being a “worst offender”? they don’t say, so it’s their decision to define it as they see fit.
if you use bittorrent, as you download you are also uploading at the same time. you can’t stop it unless you’re some hacker genius who knows how to fiddle with the program to block uploads. they (BPI) could even try to use this fact to decide who is a “worst offender”.
so although some of their info is outdated, they’re involved in suing their customers in the UK.