A propósito destes dois textosrecentes, um dado muito relevante: mais de dez milhões de musicas foram vendidas legalmente na GB só este ano. 10 milhões!
Não admira que o presidente da industria fonográfica britânica esteja eufórico:
"The BPI have announced that more than 10 million downloads have been sold this year.
In a sign that music fans in the UK are embracing legal download services, the figure is almost twice that of the whole of last year, when 5.7 million were sold in 12 months.
BPI Chairman Peter Jamieson said: “The record industry has enthusiastically embraced the new legal download services since their emergence in the mainstream little more than a year ago and now we’re beginning to reap the rewards. The battle against illegal filesharing will continue, but we are delighted to have hit this milestone so soon"."
(via NME)"

e, nos Estados Unidos, os downloads pagos triplicaram no primeiro semestre deste ano. A informação é da Nielson SoundScan (via Obercom)