Summary of the Executive Summary:<p>"The music industry is shrinking, hard copy sales are decreasing faster than online sales are growing. Innovation of businessmodel is urgent. Income for artists is moving towards liveconcerts, merchandise ans sponsorship. In the future it seems impossible to run a company solely on music recordings."<p>"The movie industry is still growing, although rentals are in steep decline. Future growth in Internet bandwidth may lead to decline eventually. Because of the inherent character of movies (people tend to view them once), file sharing may prove critical. The movie industry must not ignore this."<p>"The games industry is growing fast; at least in the console market. PC sales are stagnating. File sharing is less of a threat here. Besides that, the games industry is inherently more innovative and seeks out online solutions."<p>"The total market of music, film and games is relatively constant, but music is going down while games are going up."
"Because the consumers save much more money than the producers lose, the net economic effects are positive. The report also reinforces the truth that unpaid downloads do not translate into lost sales in anything close to a one-to-one ratio."- probably most interesting part of the article