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Comment post by JD @ 2010-07-09 01:48:22
It's sad to see the Internet, which was once a great place of freedom and expression, being targeted by many big media instustries who are ill-advising the Government of reports that claims the industry is losing out on billions, and has had nothing to gain from piracy, which have all been proven and reported to false. This is all in an attempt to pressure the Governemtn to rush through with such rash, careless and unthought out new laws. The rational behind many pirates comes down to price and availability: 1. Media is far overpriced; the price of 30 music albums would cost you the same price as a flight from London to New York. 2. Availability. The choice for many in obtaining media the most convenient, fastest and easiest way is BitTorrent. This method of distrobution brings together communities of music/movie lovers from fair and wide from accross the world. Just as in the way Facebook has changed the way in which people socialise and come togethert, so has BitTorrent, but the industry does not seem to want to pick up on this: open a fairly price, legal torrent site and they could well be 3/4 of their way to solving this issue, With the technologies available today, is there such need of a record label? The Internet allows for self-advertisement, and is far more powerful than the millions of pounds that is spent my media companies with advertisements, who then take an unfair porition from the artists in return.
Comment post by Ola25Ortega @ 2010-07-07 10:45:49
Every one acknowledges that humen's life seems to be expensive, nevertheless some people need money for various issues and not every man gets big sums cash. So to get fast personal loans and student loan will be good way out.
Comment post by Joel NIchols @ 2010-06-27 15:50:14
The way in which the music and movie industries is absolutely ridiculous. It would be like if the post office sued Gmail because it is putting them out of business. The main reasons people pirate are simple: 1. It's priced too high or they just don't feel the content is worth the price. Go look on Steam, when I can buy a full game for not much more than a song, you can see why Steam are having no problem making money, yet the music industry claims it's screwed. 1 pound for a song is too much. I can buy an album on iTunes for about 12 pounds, but I wouldn't be willing to part for anywhere near that much for an album. It's simple, they're overpriced. 2. It's not available. Simple. If say, a movie is available in the United States of America, but not the United Kingdom, then it's pretty likely that UK citizens are going to resort to piracy. Personally I use Spotify for music, and I think this is the kind of thing that the music industry needs to focus on instead. I'm perfectly happy to pay 5 or 10 pounds a month to listen to the music that I like.