New record for illegal music downloads: 1.2 billion in 2010

[foxrox]

And another link...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...et-regulation-plan-despite-economic-warnings/

 

[Benny26]

Are you sure about that? The Nazis are already heading that way.

http://www.rightsidenews.com/201004...obamas-assault-on-the-internet-has-begun.html

Nah, they can slap whatever the hell they want on the internet...There's always going to be a way round it.

Not even the United Nations could make a dent if they tried...Mind yu, the UN would have trouble fighting their way out of a paper bag.

 

[JMMD]

These statistics are about as accurate as any other number someone can dream up. I'd like to propose that only half that many songs were pirated. My guess is neither number is that accurate or really matters.

In other music news:

In 2010 the BPI reports that there were 281.7 million units sold, which is an all-time record. Never in the history of recorded music have so many pieces of music been sold, but you wont hear the music industry shouting about that. In fact, the music industry is selling more music year after year and today’s figure is up 27% compared to the 221.6 million copies sold in 2006.