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Judges rule that the makers of peer-to-peer software are not responsible for what users do with their network.
Full story below.
[URL]http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3582558.stm[/URL]
Full story below.
[URL]http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3582558.stm[/URL]
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Judges rule that the makers of peer-to-peer software are not responsible for what users do with their network.
Full story below.
[URL]http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3582558.stm[/URL]
Full story below.
[URL]http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3582558.stm[/URL]
Booyah.
Plus it's getting harder and harder to tarck down individuals, since most P2P programs now have IP blockers etc...
But it's even easier to just buy the stuff you want in the first place...
Not always.
Belldandy wrote:
> But it's even easier to just buy the stuff you want in the first
> place...
I'm sure most people would if high-street prices were fairer.
Any CD I think I want now, I get the tracks from services like Kazaa. If I like them, I buy the album from CD-WOW as I think £8.99 is a fair price.
But I absolutely refuse to buy at full price (usually £13 to £15 depending on the artist) in stores like HMV.
Then again, there are sometimes albums - or versions of albums (with extra tracks etc.) - that you can't buy here. And if you try to get an import, most stores charge prices which are even more of a rip-off than for standard albums. So downloading becomes the only practical way of getting them.
I was looking in HMV recently and saw a few soundtrack albums that I already have in my collection. I got legit copies online for £6.99... HMV still want £16.99 for them!
The industry shoots itself in the foot in those situations, and as far as I'm concerned only have their greed to blame for continued increases in piracy.
Some people will always want something for nothing, but many just object to extortionate prices. The industry always blame high prices on piracy, but that's just a cover story. The reason music sales are falling is that most of it isn't worth paying for in the first place... it has little to do with piracy.
If prices were dropped across the board by the music/film industries from Monday, piracy wouldn't be eliminated, but it would be greatly reduced.
On the flipside, if we woke up on Monday to global headlines that music/film piracy had somehow been eradicated overnight, do you really think that the prices would drop as a result?
> But it's even easier to just buy the stuff you want in the first
> place...
I'm sure most people would if high-street prices were fairer.
Any CD I think I want now, I get the tracks from services like Kazaa. If I like them, I buy the album from CD-WOW as I think £8.99 is a fair price.
But I absolutely refuse to buy at full price (usually £13 to £15 depending on the artist) in stores like HMV.
Then again, there are sometimes albums - or versions of albums (with extra tracks etc.) - that you can't buy here. And if you try to get an import, most stores charge prices which are even more of a rip-off than for standard albums. So downloading becomes the only practical way of getting them.
I was looking in HMV recently and saw a few soundtrack albums that I already have in my collection. I got legit copies online for £6.99... HMV still want £16.99 for them!
The industry shoots itself in the foot in those situations, and as far as I'm concerned only have their greed to blame for continued increases in piracy.
Some people will always want something for nothing, but many just object to extortionate prices. The industry always blame high prices on piracy, but that's just a cover story. The reason music sales are falling is that most of it isn't worth paying for in the first place... it has little to do with piracy.
If prices were dropped across the board by the music/film industries from Monday, piracy wouldn't be eliminated, but it would be greatly reduced.
On the flipside, if we woke up on Monday to global headlines that music/film piracy had somehow been eradicated overnight, do you really think that the prices would drop as a result?
Or you could always use legitimate pay-for-download services...
Or you could not
Ahahahahaha
*gets coat*
Sorry.
Ahahahahaha
*gets coat*
Sorry.
Stupid judge so much easier to download than make pirates with a vcr.
Half the problem is for people like me, who don't have a credit card and are lazy, it's a hassle going out and getting a CD, or asking people if I can use theirs.
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