filesharing figures and a a perspective: http://www.bricklin.com/recordsales.htm "Perhaps the real reason for some of the drop in sales was the shutdown of Napster and other crackdowns by the music industry." "At the same time they are trying to kill a goose that is laying a golden egg by fighting Digital Music Use rather than, as Forrester's Bernoff suggests, understanding and joining it" Bob writes: :Remember when Metallica went after file swappers? :Lots of their fans turned nasty, which tells me their were :interested in getting the music for free and they did not :understand this simple fact: Metallica produces a :product and they intend to sell it for profit. The band :went after abusers just like any other business with assets :to protect would I was one of the people who's names appeared on the Metallica complaint - I had downloaded a song to send to someone. I had the album but it was easier (at that time) for me to download it than to rip it. After the hostile email I got, I decided I was NOT going to buy Metallica music again. k
