http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,54773,00.html claims: "Shipments of CDs dropped 7 percent in the first six months of this year, a fact attributed to an increase in music downloads through file-trading services, according to a report issued Monday by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). " Hmmm, that's interesting, gee, we were having a really great economy the first six months of this year. What, with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, and the bursting of the dot com bubble, the fall of so many telecoms, and all the thousands upon thousands of layoffs.. I really can't see why people wouldn't be buying CD's in droves with all their disposable income... Gee, it must be the mp3 pirates, yeah, that's the ticket... yeah, it's that napster thing that did it... yeah, that's why the buttstreet boys and the other cocksucking boy and girl bands have had little cd sales, it's not because their music is overpromoted shit that's far less useful than the billions of giveaway AOL coaster cd's, who get less than a penny per sold album anyway and have such great incentive to put-out (tee hee) more of the same... No! It's because they're so popular that every gnutella poppin' teenage fiend who gets thousands of dollars a day in allowance decided to priate their precious unique, creative, and wonderful songs which never sound anything like, and deprive the poor RIAA executives! Oh, poor RIAA, their executives won't be able to support their cocaine habbits anymore, waaa, they'll have to go back to smoking ganja again, Oh, poor, poor bastards, no more personal jets and hookers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H personal massage therapists. Oh, the poor starving RIAA executives! My heart just bleeds for their plight! We must act now to stop the pirates. I know, I know, I'll call my congressman right now, and get all my friends to do the same! We must end this carnage right now! ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :NSA got $20Bil/year |Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :and didn't stop 9-11|share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:Instead of rewarding|monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :their failures, we |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :should get refunds! |site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------