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Originally Posted by jailedmenonly  Though with emails and mp3s came file sharing and it's becoming increasingly difficult fo rthe industry to do anything about it. |
the problem isn't really email - it's all forms of "sharing" via P2P. Massive numbers...
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Originally Posted by jailedmenonly As much as Metallica lost a huge amount of respect from the napster saga, they were completely right and the industry should have sat up and stopped as much of it as they possibly could. |
I agree with this. The artists themselves should be the educators about piracy. Leaving it to the RIAA has been a disaster from a
PR point of view. Sure - there's awareness, but it would have been much better to get awareness from the artists directly. The artists have the audience, they should be the educators.