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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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.
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Methinks that the age stated is much higher than 21.This mind set has been around much longer than 21 years. More like since the first floppy's became popular for mass storage, 640kb and up.
It has just gotten easer too do now.
Back then a 10 Meg hard drive was a dream to have and rare as hens teeth. For the hobbyist.
Been there and done that!
Edit: 300 baud was smoking fast also.
