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  • Music Piracy Crippling CD Sales

    12/10/2002 6:31:32 PM PST · by new cruelty · 97 replies · 842+ views
    Centre Daily Times ^ | December 6, 2002 | Adam Smeltz
    UNIVERSITY PARK - As electronic file-swapping keeps playing its illegal jingle, the recording industry is upping complaints against universities nationwide -- possibly including Penn State. Mike Negra, president of Mike's Video Inc. in State College, said compact-disc sales in college towns in 2002 are "probably down somewhere between 50 and 60 percent" from 1999. "Stores such as mine, and other stores in college markets across the country, were the first to see the potential impact of file-swapping," Negra said. "Business, generally, in that group of stores in the second half of 2000, was down about 40 percent," he said. Writing...