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Re: [LUG] My letter to my MP / ISP ban to The Pirate Bay

 

On 05/05/12 13:27, Mark Evans wrote:
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On 02/05/12 12:24, paul sutton wrote:

1. the recording industry argument is that if you share this
material on file sharing sites, then neither the company or artist
get anything for it,   and you are hurting the industry,  which is
a fair argument until
Known as the "lost sales" argument.

you realise how that money is distributed and it starts to
unravel.
Also how the companies concerned are masters of creative accounting too.

The fact I can share a track illegally and that person then perhaps
goes out and buys that album anyway is probably never taken into
account.  So its a sort of underground promotion ( as you said in
what you wrote above)
There is also a third possibility where someone who couldn't obtain a
"pirate copy" is never a potential customer in the first place. Since
they would not (or in many cases could not) purchase a "legitimate"
copy. I suspect that this may cover the majority of cases. With "lost"
and "gained" sales being minority cases...

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I stopped buying when they bumped up the price and started to refuse returns. Didn’t like it or it was faulty - tough? I used to buy 2 or 3 albums a week. I don’t bother to pirate - I don’t feel comfortable with it - I just left the market. I'd still go and see live bands in pubs and buy their CD's but they effectively stopped bands playing in pubs, or even small intimate venues. Films... well I havent seen many that are worth renting let alone buying but I never bought films anyway. When all is said and done the entertainments industry is about as useful to those who create content as ms is to nokia.
Tom te tom te tom


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