BPI’s latest fantasy report
p2pnet.net News:- According to the BPI’s latest report, things are going swimmingly for the corporate music industry.
Of course, spin, not reality, is what it’s all about for the entertainment cartels, and their many enforcement and PR organizations such as the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) exist to impart it.
The idea is: repeat something often enough, use your media power to make sure it gets unlimited coverage and eventually, the masses will come to believe it.
According to the BPI, “growth in legal downloads” is “already outstripping the growth in illegal filesharing” and UK download sales in 2005 have passed ten-million.
However, in the region of one and a quarter billion music files move computer to computer via the p2p networks around the world every month.
There may be growth in UK corporate sales, but it’s infinitismal and isn’t remotely close to outstripping anything.
In fact, the average number of users simultaneously connected to p2p networks each month around the world has rocketed from 3,847,565 in August, 2003, to 8.9 million in June this year.
And you can be sure the BPI’s ten million figure is wildly inaccurate, made up of wishful thinking, creative accounting and estimates based on an ideal (for the industry) world.
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July 12th, 2005 at 2:56 pm
They’ve spent to much time lying and spinning to us, even if the music and movie industry start telling the truth, no one will believe them. This is a big problem for the music and movie industry, and will only get worse in the future.
July 12th, 2005 at 8:09 pm
Has anyone other than the industries (some legit) do an investigation of these reports? I never seen one.
It makes sense for a company to report losses the bigger the more control they can get and more money.