Link to original article: 95% of Music Downloads are Illegal: IFPI

I’m glad to see the IFPI is at least a little smarter than the RIAA:

Pretty impressive growth despite the piracy. Also, unlike the RIAA, the IFPI does not consider every download to be a lost sale. Rather, they consider about 10% of the downloads to be lost sales, meaning that rather than 40 billion songs, only 4 billion song sales were lost, assuming, of course, the IFPI’s unsubstantiated numbers are correct.

Even still, I think the IFPI forgot to do another independent survey to assess how many people lie in surveys… 

Still, it’s hard to believe that 95% figure. The majority of people hardly understand P2P, or want to participate in what many consider immoral as well as illegal, after all. Happily for the industry, though, according to the report,