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Originally Posted by redvelvetstudios  dubious |
i scanned the report
http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/DMR2010.pdf
where does it say 95% piracy in the us?
it does say in the us sales fell 30%. you can't have 95% piracy and sale hits of only 30%, that would imply that people were pirating music they already owned (possible I guess). it also says only one in five people in europe pirate music. so to me that says a 20% piracy rate in the EU, which means 80% of the population is just not spending money on music either.
that number might be true for china, maybe lower for brazil and maybe a bit lower for spain. i don't think its true in the usa--would like to see these stats.
don't have time to fact check everything, but a couple of those numbers you are listing don't seem right or at the least, sensationalized extrapolations...
i think any serious study would have to start in the 1980, and represent totals: vinyl, cassette, cd, digital download, in units, and then another graph of digital dollars + non-digital dollars.