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Some great comments on this debate, a few points from me
The Mp3 scene and p2p sharing is getting bigger every year aswell as the number of broadband users signing up to cheap services are doubling, what do they expect you are going to do with a 512k connection , watch crappy movie trailers while you download the full movie for free ? or are they going to stream a sample of Britneys new album when you can download the whole thing in 20mins and put it on CDR for 10p ,
A few more facts , it is now to late for the RIAA, so what they sue a girl for $3000, while there record companies are loosing millions every year, they make these adverts threatning to sue you, for what $3k a song, when was the last time you saw a 12yr or anyone with more than $250k, in there bank. ok so you cant pay it and you goto jail, catch a few hubs with 3000 users and there will be no jails left, there must be 100's of millions of Terrabytes of mp3's out there.
Ok you download 20 albums a week for $0, say if you bought 20 albums in a retail shop its gonna cost you $300 not many ppl buy that i know spend that much on music, isn't it a good thing that ppl are listenning to more , rather than paying more !! and listenning to less which gives a chance for the artists to distrute new material easily.
Ok you are selling ilegal copies of albums to ppl, for $4 an album, its all gonna be taxed any way by the governments sooner or later which goes back into the system.
You turn on MTV which has 8-10 channels , Justin timberlake must be played 100 times a day , because he is a good artist NO ! Its because they need to drill his shit music into your brain so you buy the album and not download it.
Im glad that the POP industry is doing crap, songs like the ketchup song, bob the builder are number one. Most radio stations play the same music over and over again and never attemp to play something different , ok i am a trance fan, but that does not mean that i only like trance, the radio stations a suffering because the cant judge on whats good and whats bad anymore, they just go off image !! how many FAT pop bands have u seen recently ??? if i didn't have access to this forum and the HUB i would probabily of never like trance music, theres hundreds of trance artists out there that i had never of heard of.
The same will happen to DVD's and it will soon be the Film industry that suffers, with mobile technology comes into play the wole thing is gonna collapse id say in 5-10 years,
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I haven't bought a cd in a long time. I am willing to pay for music online, but I'm not willing to plop down $15-$20 for a cd with only a couple songs that I recognize.
