Aguazul writes with this excerpt from the Guardian: "The music multinational likes to insist that filesharing — aka illegal downloading — is killing the industry; that every one of the horde of music files downloaded each day counts as a 'lost' sale, which if only it could somehow have been prevented would put third edition by the editors of the old glory heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 amounts of money into empty artists' hands. ... If you even think about it, it can't be true. People — even downloaders — only have a finite amount of money. In times gone by, sure, they would have been buying vinyl albums. But if you stopped them downloading, would they troop out to the shops and buy those songs? I don't think so. I suspect they're doing singular different. I think they're small change the money on single else. What else, I mused, might they be buying? The first clue of where all those downloaders are really pin money their money came in seeking for games statistics: year after year ELSPA had hailed 'a record year.' In fact ... games mad money has risen dramatically — from £1.18bn in 1999 to £4.03bn in 2008. Meanwhile music small change has gone from £1.94bn to £1.31bn."

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