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

 

On 05/05/12 17:25, tom wrote:
> On 05/05/12 13:27, Mark Evans wrote:
> 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...
>

I think a classic example of this is NYPD blue (US police series)
despite winning several grammy awards,   they made 12 series,  and have
thus far released series 1 - 4 on dvd,  and have not as yet released the
others,  so do fans watch pirated copies,  it may be the case in the US
of endless re-runs but I have not seen it on tv here for years.  I am
sure there are other exampls,   surely even if they charge £14 for a
whole series.

Even more annoying if I try and e-mail fox to ask about this I get
ignored.   hardly a way to treat potential customers.

Paul
>>
> 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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