In Every Street In Every Town!

[andrew_j_w]

According FACT and the BPI there is a counterfeiter of music and films working in almost every street of every town. Apparently this is big business and they are making a lot of money. My question to this is if there is someone making money out of copying films and music on every street, and a street has on average (as a wild guess) 50 houses how

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[rob2081]

They make an awful lot of assumptions, don't they. If you look at their figures for the total cost to the industry of piracy/downloading, they also assume:

That no-one who ever watches a copy ever purchases the original, that the person watching the copy paid for it, or would have ever bought the original in the first place and a million one other reasons that basically amount to the industry making up a whole load of shitty statistics to prove that we are all in fact evil pirates and should be punished as a result. To which I say, fuck em - give me quality, unencumbered content and I might consider paying what I feel is worth paying for it. Alienating your customers certainly doesn't seem to be a tactic of a healthy industry.

[dwinsper]

Jack, you just don't get it. The recording/movie industries are there for your own good. You really don't get what would have happened if DRM hadn't been invented. Here's a hint: we'd all be pirates! In fact, there would be so much piracy that we'd blow up the world with the sheer volume of copying we'd be doing. After all, without DRM, we would end up becoming pirates completely by accident.

In all seriousness, I absolutely cannot wait until something better than the iPod comes along. Something so much better that it triggers a mass migration away from the iPod. There'd be this huge mass of confusion as to why people can't put all their iTunes Music Store music on their new iPod-killer and, amongst it all, there'd be me saying "I told you so months ago" for weeks on end. It'll be great :D