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On 05/05/12 13:27, Mark Evans wrote:
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.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 untilKnown 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... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+lHJwACgkQsoRLMhsZpFcd4wCeJYhzrdLd5HauqflAa2T1OLT0 ZY8An01lWjvzO4zNYnlcwPtwK8qQQsL8 =nNVM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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