Post 1172

Posted Tuesday, 6 July 2004, 13:44 HST @905

Music: Yahoo! News - Rampant Piracy Threatens to Silence Latin Music Industry: It’s like I’ve told people for years. If enough people pirate music and movies without buying the real versions, we’ll start seeing less entertainment for sale. Simple economics. “Piracy is so rife in Mexico that the vast majority of the band’s album sales are illegal CDs peddled on the street. So although most anyone over the age of 13 knows the words to “Que Viva El Rock and Roll,” El Tri and its label, a division of Warner Music Group, rarely see a peso from those recordings.”