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Comment post by Sarah @ 2010-02-07 11:36:19
Music is was to expensive to start with, i've been new albums out for £15+. I'm a student and I can't afford that; the music industry folk are rolling around in their money and saying "hey someones downloaded my album! I need that extra £10!". If you download and sell it on I completely understadn but if it's for personal use thern whats the point! Almost everyone is guilty of downloading a song they didn't pay for! The people who don't shouldn't be punish either, this is just a porrly thought through policy the goverment ETC. are going to try put in place and hope to god that it works.
Comment post by MD1500 @ 2010-02-06 21:40:31
Well, as it stands, the proposed bill already requires all Broadband users to pay £25 extra a year and 50p extra a month. I have no doubt these fees will increase once the measures to tackle filesharing inevitably prove to be ineffective. If we have to pay another tax on top of that to be distributed among rights holders, I can't see it going down well. I'm not actually sure the music / movie industry is in bad shape anyway. Despite file sharing, Digital Music sales have increased dramatically. How can any industry where a single film (Avatar) makes $2 Billion profit in three months during terrible weather and a global recession possibly be suffering?
Comment post by Gene @ 2010-02-05 15:37:58
The old school wants the Internet to be glorified television.