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Originally Posted by BossHogg
But the point can also be made that a lot of the music that people download they would not buy anyway.
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You're saying that if there was music someone wanted, and they couldn't get it for free, that they
wouldn't buy it?
Come on! If that were the case, there would
be no music industry today!
I don't know a lot of people who indiscriminently download gigabytes of music that they've never heard, just hoping that they'll pull a few good ones from the pile. People
selectively download what they want, generally based on hearing it first, or being recommended by a peer.
Before the internet, people occasionally experimented by buying new artists and albums, they taped off the radio, or they watched MTV. They were therefore exposed to a lot of music that they would not buy, because it didn't strike their fancy. I haven't gotten the impression that people use download services the same way. They generally cherry-pick their music, ignoring the stuff they don't like. And I think you'd find that most of those people, if denied that music for free, would buy it if they wanted it.