Read this: Music industry way off track with song and dance about falling sales
The Australian record industry has just had its best year ever. But it doesn’t want you to know about it. This month ARIA announced its sales figures for last year. In its press release, it talked about Delta, it talked about falling CD singles sales, it talked about the rise in DVD sales, but at no stage did it tell us it was the industry’s best year ever. Why bury the good news?
Why does this not surprise me? The music industry, complaining about being crippled by music piracy can, in fact, actually throw down their crutches and run, dance and skip. But that wouldn’t suit their agenda now, would it?
To repeat – read Lessig on this.
