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Only this much: There are 250 Million blank CDRs and tapes bought and used this year for copying music in comparison to 213 Million prerecorded audio media. This means the owners are only being paid for 46 per cent of the musical content. For a comparison: In 1998 almost 90% of all audio media was paid for.

Of the blank CDRs mentioned in this letter how many were used for non-audio releated activities. You know legit purposes like data back up, sending a copy of my pictures to a friend, theses submission. And so on.
Big time number fudge.

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I agree. That statement they made almost infuriates me as much as their claim about how many millions they're losing per year due to pirating. What makes them think that every cd downloaded free would've been a sale for them? I've downloaded a few songs over the years, mostly of things that are out of print. Out of print! Even if I had wanted to buy them, how could that have been a sale?

I think we should try to get everyone we know to boycott the industry and not buy any music till they come to their senses.
If that doesn't work maybe we should torch all their corporate offices to the ground.
I'm getting really sick of all these groups/companies/individuals trying to impose their views on the rest of the general public!!!