OPINION: Web numbers

By Paul Sweeting -- Video Business, 1/25/2008

Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda

JAN. 25 | The 2008 Digital Music Report released this week by the IFPI, the global music industry association, is a truly remarkable document.

It’s prefaced with what can only be described as a Jeremiad from IFPI chairman/CEO John Kennedy aimed at Internet service providers, whom Kennedy blames for most of what ails the recorded music business worldwide, including the 10% decline in global music sales in 2007.

The report then goes on to give the industry credit for adopting “innovative” strategies that might have been helpful a decade ago but today are probably too little, too late to recapture the ground the industry has already lost in the digital free-for-all.

Read the full column at ContentAgenda.com.

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