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Originally Posted by Kiwiburger  Kids copied songs from AM or FM radio onto cassette tapes. It was 'illegal' then. |
That's a flawed example because you don't know what song is coming next as opposed to file sharing networks where you can do a search.
Look, this is simply theft on a grand scale, and the sooner Governments make ISPs responsible for policing this, the better it will be for the industry. Clearly the record industry isn't spending enough money on lobbiest in Washington to save this multi-billion dollar business.
Btw, it's not just record companies being ripped off here, it has a trickle down impact on publishers, artists, writers, studios, producers, engineers, software and equipment manufacturers, and on and on, an entire industry is at risk involving millions of lives.
Sure, there's an overload of content out there, that comes with cheaper access to technology, but people love music and always will. Good music will always get noticed somehow, but we must pay for it if the industry is to survive.
There is a simple technological solution, our lawmakers should be more concerned (especially as the movie industry is starting to meet the same fate), there's a lot of tax dollars at stake here!
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