Despite lawsuits, digital music downloads grow
 

"Despite success in suing people who download music illegally and in reaching deals with personal networking sites like YouTube, the music industry is still bleeding millions of dollars in sales to online piracy.

It is a major issue for an industry that is desperately trying to boost revenue from legal downloads to make up for falling sales of Compact Discs, which declined 23% globally between 2000 to 2006."


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well compact disks are going to fall even more in sales...new music technology will make them obsolete, so that is inevitable.

and on a side note...is Limewire illegal? :confused:

Having and using the software is not. Using it to illegally download copyrighted media is.

...how do you know if what you are downloading is illegal?...

cuz i paid for it and now I want to know what not to download....thanks!