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 * many music industry trade groups claim that piracy has a negative effect on their industry-DG
 * the music industry believes that unauthorized buying and selling of music is killing sales growth and profits-DG
 * because music costs more to produce, the price of CD's has risen-DG
 * the only solution for the label's is to lock down music so it can't be shared,, prosecute file traders, and institute market pricing for music-DG
 * critics of the RIAA ar the "free and open software crowd", people who don't want to pay full price for music, people who don't wand to be restricted in buying music, and companies who don't benefit from the market price of music-DG
 * the most critical are those who create open source sorfware-DG
 * these critics are against DRM and would rather see musicians be supported my donations and sponsoring companies-DG
 * other avid critics are kids who don't want to pay full price for music-DG
 * the riaa has been targeting these types of people and creates "fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the safety of trading files"-DG
 * it costs many thousands of dollars to produce and single album and millions to create a movie-DG
 * "If the resources to produce music were not scarce, there would be no American Idol or Star Search, and the planet would have 6 billion rock stars."-DG
 * the DRM stops counterfeiting and protects the value of currency-DG
 * governments enact punishment for counterfeiters, develope anti-counterfeiting methods, and police their money supplies-DG
 * the DRM prevents copying of music, creates copyright laws, penalties, and sues those who evade thesee laws-DG
 * the main difference between counterfeiting and music pirating is that only the counterfeiter benefits from counterfeiting, while more people benefit from pirating-DG
 * the real customers are the people who buy the music, not the people who pirate music or create open source software-DG
 * these people are taken for granted by record labels who use threats and lawsuits to intimidate them-DG
 * if record labels want to increase their profits, they need to create an incentive-DG
 * Apple makes very little money off of iTunes but isn't interested in raising their music prices-DG
 * Apple wants to expand the music sold to expand its TV and movie sales-DG
 * alternatives to iTunes have failed because they threaten with DRM-DG
 * CD sales increased from 1995-2000 but fell between 2000and 2005 and the labels blame piracy-DG
 * DVD's, videogames,and other entertainment have given people other things to spend their money on, other than music-DG
 * question arrises as to whether the riaa expects to expand their CD sales when music can now be downloaded over the internet-DG
 * in 2005, the % of downloaded music jumped from its former 1% to 6% of the market-DG
 * music labels killed the record stores my making popular music unaffordable-DG
 * Apple sales are doing better because of their consistant prices and selection-DG
 * "If the music indusry wants to survivve, it needs to sell music rather than valify itself as a hostile authority, price itself out of the market, and insist upon excessive DRM."-DG
 * label's most effective strategies may be to destroy online services by dumping downloads into them, focus on efforts on prosecuting physical piracy, and attack the piracy of criminal organizations (such as Pirate Bay and the Russian mafia)-DG
 * Pirate Bay sold $120,000 in ads for its space in a month and none of the money went to artists, technicians, or labels-DG
 * the music industry sees no difference between piracy and file sharing and sees traded songs as potentially unsold CDs-DG
 * DVD sales in 2002 jumped 60% to $8.7 billion-DG
 * Harvard University and the University of North Carolina did a study on file sharing and reported a 1.75 million traded songs over a 17 week period compared to actual album sales-DG
 * the recording industry can get more out of making CDs and online purchases appealing than by raising prices and suing children for pirating-DG