english: In many ways the decline is down to short-sightedness on the part of the record label chiefs of ten years ago, who failed to see that the CD boom could never be maintained long term, and who failed to see the potential of the internet in terms of new revenue streams, and who spent too much time getting hot under the collar about the threat of the internet rather than investing in new net based initiatives, and securing the artist contracts needed to ensure the success of those initiatives.
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