March 4, 2004 10:55 AM PST
Record sales down, but seen as stabilizing
Record shipments declined in 2003, but at a substantially slower rate
than the steep slide seen in 2002, the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) said Thursday. The value of music shipped to U.S. retail outlets fell by 4.3 percent in 2003, compared with a 6.8 percent drop the previous year. The number of units shipped dropped just 2.7 percent, compared with 7.8 percent in 2002, the group said.
The figures did not include sales though online stores such as Apple Computer's iTunes. Those markets are still very young, and their health will require continued anti-piracy enforcement efforts online, said RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol in a statement.
- An Unacceptable approach to consumers
- by August 27, 2005 12:47 PM PDT
- I know the idea of copying a lincense in full and giving it to another person is not right, but the act in which the RIAA is approaching to the consumer market by putting these type of copy ristrictions are unacceptable.<br /><br />Instead, the RIAA needs to take measures that makes the flowage of the media between CDs, computers, and devices of the media easy on the consumers, give them the flexibility by using the technology, and allow interoperability of the media. Sure, the CSS prevents consumers from making copies, but it can't be played on PCs. But please. It's time for the RIAA to expand it's operations, let the consumers make personal backups (put protection measures that only works on the PC that the CD was copied from), and let them get along with the flexibility with the consumer technology. Why not have consumers put the music on the "special CDs" so that it can be given to a friend while the record labels get money from this? If the RIAA expands it's marketing using copying technology, than the recording industry would have made a lot of money.
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