>     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

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:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_largest_software_companies

Where Microsoft alone sells $40bn of software, the total is probably around 
$150bn.

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