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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (57684)	10/7/2006 1:35:08 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) of 213177

BTW I havent bought a music CD since 1995. I used to have about 500 CDs, but I ripped them all to disk and then sold them at the local music store. Your cause and effect analysis is a little off here. I agree most adults don't buy too many music CDs anymore. But this phenom is absolutely no different than the fact that most MIS depts are unwilling to pay upgrades for MS Windows now. No business or company can constantly raise prices with no improvement or a degradation in quality and expect to remain status quo. "Illegal file sharing" <wink wink> wouldn't have mattered in the 60s or 70s when the music industry was putting out high quality product. The number of people who would have really wanted to steal the White Album or Aretha or anything of that time would have been insignificant compared the the number of buyers who just had to have the real thing. One area of music who has bucked the overall trend of the file sharing bogeyman is country. The new country music which started around the time of Garth Brooks has been going strong for years. No problem with illegal file sharing.

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