Further evidence that illegal downloads are a red herring

Music copied onto blank recordable CDs is becoming a bigger threat to
the bottom line of record stores and music labels than online
file-sharing, the head of the recording industry’s trade group said
Friday…"Burned" CDs accounted for 29 percent of all recorded music obtained by
fans in 2004, compared to 16 percent attributed to downloads from
online file-sharing networks…

Here is the story.