Thats a nice story and its keeping sales alive at the moment. But when the consumer looses all interest in physical CDs, why would he download a free lossless CD and then like it and then buy exactly the same thing again. RIAA reports sales by value including both CDs and Digital downaloads as down 6.5% in 2006 and year on year falls in several previous years as well. But in a future without DRM the numbers are expected to get much worse. When you buy from allofmp3.com or file share artists and record companies get nothing. Hence the move away from selling music to making money off live tv and events being tested by the major lables. This is disasterous for smaller artists.
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