http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=110&xlc=922185
Music industry woes
America's music industry - especially its record producers - is under attack
from all sides, says Wired (February), the high-tech magazine.
Blaming music piracy, the magazine says performers, equipment manufacturers
and "good old-fashioned customers ... are killing the record labels." CD
sales fell 11 percent in the first half of 2002, after a 3 percent decline
in 2001.
"At least a hundred copies of every song on the Billboard Hot 100 were
available for download (on the Internet)," Wired says.
The article, in Wired's Feb.2003 issue, on newsstands now, opens with a
prediction by the late Timothy White,
editor of Billboard, that the Music Industry will die in 2003. Aw, gee:
wouldn't that be too bad?! ;)
.o0O}seeklektek{O0o.
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