Only music sales tripled

The first figures for year 2005 about online music selling are quite excellent. They tripled as compared to the same period last year, to reach 6.6% of the global volume of sales. For the first half of 2005 they reached 790 millions $ as opposed to 220 in 2004.
As could be expected, CD sales falter and lose 200 millions, not because of a loss of sales, yet thanks to some CD prices that dropped.
This proves the long range viability of this distribution system, though in the future it might harm CD resellers, if they don't manage to adapt themselves.
Of course, those figures won't prevent the majors to go on and attack people who download on P2P networks. On that matter, a 42 year old disabled person was sent to justice for downloading rap at night, which she strongly denies. She hence decided to counter-attack and in turn took law action against the majors and their ultra agressive ways. We'll let you know when the case is stated, it's the way they track downloaders that's at stake.