"scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote in message 
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>>     It does?? I find that kind of mind-boggling since the music industry 
>> has been around for ages.
>
> I just did some quick Googling and came up with this:
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Recorded_Music_Interim_Physical_Retail_Sales_in_2005
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> Which seems to indicate about $12bn of music sales in the top 20 
> countries, so we can guess that the worldwide figure is tops $20bn.
>
> And then:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_largest_software_companies
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> Where Microsoft alone sells $40bn of software, the total is probably 
> around $150bn.

      Wow, that's a big difference indeed. So, maybe a government thinks 
that the software industry can handle their own affairs accordingly, and the 
music business get's a nice nudge now and again?

   ~Steve~

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