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This century's home taping poses modern problems.(VIEWPOINT)
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of the BPI campaign Home Taping Is Killing Music. The slogan proved extremely unpopular with the press, which challenged the record industry to demonstrate that it really was killing record sales.
The music industry has been facing a challenge from internet piracy. This marries the twin problems of private copying and commercial piracy. The preferred solution in the UK, to concentrate on serial offenders, has produced court judgments that will act as a deterrent, but the scale of the unlawful activity and the impact on buying habits is a concern.
But could this be another case of the industry crying wolf? Plainly home taping did not kill music in the 1980s and 1990s. Far from it. The industry prospered as a consequence of CD technology, 2that played a part in what has become a significant shift in the age demographic of core purchasers of recorded music as a consequence of which the record industry is less dependent upon the 15-24 age group. Coincidentally, this is the group most ...
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...Internet on their business, but the record industry is at the sharp end. Beauty products...Ken Berry, chief executive of EMI Recorded Music, points out, "is something of a...number of times. That is why the record industry launched the Secure Digital Music...
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...development and distribution at EMI Recorded Music, the turning point was the April...severe pressure on price points for the record industry over there. And it's a widely held...fortunes. EMI's Cohen argues that the record industry's new partners are in it for the...
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...gone up, the music industry's have gone down. Sales of recorded music in the United States have dropped by more than a 100 million...for music has changed, and CD sales are declining, the record industry is hiring lawyers and lobbyists to squelch the new technologies...
