International trade group IFPI says worldwide sales of music fell 6.7% for the first six months of the year, most drastically in Germany (down 13%), Denmark (24%) and Brazil (37%). The industry blames home CD recording and Net music trading.

After all, it's not like there was an economic downturn or anything like that. No other businesses had their sales drop during that time; it was just the poor music industry which suffered. And it's all the fault of those bloody CD cloners. (discuss)