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Originally Posted by HarryT
Do you think that fewer people would break the law if the law called if "theft" instead of using "cozy" words like "File Sharing", that make it sound like it's a good thing to do?
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Things like that are only really useful for causing arguments on internet forums. I haven't read the article, but I've sent it to my Kindle to read later so I don't know if it already mentions this at all.
But the reason 25% of the online population download unauthorised files is because the copyright holders refused to release authorised digital copies in the late 90s when people first started buying devices to play digital content.
So people turned to other sources instead. Once they went there it was hard for the copyright holders to win them back when they did condescend to give people what they wanted.
Now you have a situation where people aged 21 and under have grown up with unauthorised downloads and really see nothing wrong with it at all. As an overall group, they do still buy things, probably just as much as we did at that age, but everything else will be downloaded.