Volgens een onderzoek van de Amerikaanse muziek industrie hebben de CD verkopen ernstig te lijden onder het fanatieke MP3 leechen bij studenten en scholieren. In de buurt van scholen zouden verkopen de afgelopen twee jaar merkbaar gedaald zijn, terwijl deze elders juist stegen. Over een mogelijk iets te hoge prijs van CD's wordt vanzelfsprekend met geen woord gerept...
Sales of recorded music near college campuses declined over the past two years while rising elsewhere, according to a study the music industry believes shows the corrosive impact of people downloading music for free.Music sales during the first three months of 2000 were up 12 percent over the first quarter of 1998. Yet at stores located within five miles of a college campuses, which account for roughly half of all albums bought, sales went down 4 percent over the same period, according to a study released Wednesday. It was commissioned by Reciprocal, Inc., a digital rights management company.
[...] Reciprocal's study used figures from Soundscan, the company that measures music purchases, and is the most extensive attempt to try and document whether downloading affects sales.
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