Ravenwood is quick to cut the RIAA off at the pass, anticipating that the music organization may attribute recently rising sales to their legal campaign against file traders. As many have pointed out in the past, music sales fell along with sales of other merchandise over the past few years, and so it shouldn't be a surprise that as the economy improves music sales are going up.
Aside from piracy, Ravenwood points out one possible alternative explanation for weak music sales:
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