Kennedy is hoping to piggyback a new French policy that will force ISPs to monitor customers for illegal file sharing - and disconnect them after three strikes. Global music industry sales declined by around 10% in 2007, he said. Legal global track downloads grew 53 percent in 2007 to 1.7 billion. Individual singles make up 30 percent of the digital music market. Record labels made an estimated $2.9 billion from digital sales in 2007, 40 percent increase ($2.1 billion in 2006, $1.1 billion in 2005, $380 million in 2004). Digital now represents 15 percent of the total music market. (Paid Content, IFPI Digital Music Report, Dow Jones)
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