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Jome:
From last week, but haven't seen it discussed on here..

RIAA Loss Report Contradicts Nielsen Sales Record

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday May 13, @09:30PM
from the cult-of-spin dept.
DerekAtLC writes "In a not-so-surprising twist of the tables, RIAA reporting of 'losses' is a little bit off. An interesting blurb at Ars Technica referencing a Kensei News article points out that Nielsen's Soundscan (Which tracks retail point-of-sale numbers for the music industry) shows a 10% increase in sales from Q1 2003 to Q1 2004. The RIAA has recently reported drops in revenue from last year, citing online piracy as the main problem. The crux of the issue? The RIAA hasn't been talking about sales or revenue in terms of sales to consumers or money generated via those sales. The RIAA talks about losses in terms of number of units shipped to retail outlets. The article points out plenty of problems with this (and reasons why we are seeing the trend), but it is fairly obvious that the RIAA is not reporting the most 'useful' numbers to the public."

(Slashdot.org)

Don Rizzle:
kinda reminds me of that southpark episode when they download the mp3s and the fbi show them what effect it has on the musicains (made them slightly less rich)

davida.b.:
thats funny ;D

Trauma-san:
As much as you fanboys wanna think, this isn't 'manipulating sales numbers'.  They stated the facts, didn't they?  Not telling the entire story isn't 'manipulating sales numbers'.  You could maybe claim they were being deceitful, but manipulating the numbers? No.

Jome:

--- Quote from: SMiLE on May 20, 2004, 10:38:38 PM ---As much as you fanboys wanna think, this isn't 'manipulating sales numbers'.  They stated the facts, didn't they?  Not telling the entire story isn't 'manipulating sales numbers'.  You could maybe claim they were being deceitful, but manipulating the numbers? No.

--- End quote ---

Who's the fanboy.. do you work in RIAA.. ??  ::)

RIAA told you Americans: "The music industry doesn't sell that much records any more, and it's all because of online piracy"
At the same time, the REAL statistics say that sales are UP 10% !!
All this to justify RIAA's warfare on random citizens downloading some music.. (Aka. Their own costumers)

You are way to gullible, someone should slap some sense into you, wake the fuck up!!

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