Comments on: RIAA hasn’t paid artists https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/03/riaa-hasnt-paid-artists/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 24 May 2008 04:29:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nicolas https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/03/riaa-hasnt-paid-artists/comment-page-1/#comment-11413 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:46:57 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=6036#comment-11413 And this, Mr. Nuesslein, is why illegal music downloads continue to thrive while legal music sales are still heading downward briskly?

Theory, meet reality:

Sales of Music, Long in Decline, Plunge Sharply
March 21, 2007
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB117444575607043728-lMyQjAxMDE3NzI0MTQyNDE1Wj.html

Digital sales of individual songs this year have risen 54% from a year earlier to 173.4 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan. But that’s nowhere near enough to offset the 20% decline from a year ago in CD sales to 81.5 million units. Overall, sales of all music — digital and physical — are down 10% this year. And even including sales of ringtones, subscription services and other “ancillary” goods, sales are still down 9%, according to one estimate; some recording executives have privately questioned that figure, which was included in a recent report by Pali Research.

Meanwhile, one billion songs a month are traded on illegal file-sharing networks, according to BigChampagne LLC.

]]> By: William Nuesslein https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/03/riaa-hasnt-paid-artists/comment-page-1/#comment-11412 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:07:49 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=6036#comment-11412 Good grief! Artists can not benefit directly from the occasional lawsuit by RIAA; there just isn’t enough money there. They benefit indirectly, if at all, by having potential customers pay for its music in lieu of steeling it.

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