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Mr. Roland, like so many before him, has pretty much one thing to say: “People want their free music and, by Jingo, they will get it!” Fair enough, I’m waiting for my free beer. The economic reality, though, is that you cannot have free music any more than free beer. Someone is paying for every track you download illegaly and it’s probably your favourite artist (unless that’s Kurt Cobain – he’s dead). Eventually, their money will run out. Do not get used to piracy: like every parasite, the better it gets, the closer it gets to killing its host.
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I always find it frustrating when people conflate finite resources with infinite ones. Apparently if someone sets up an automated loop to download-delete-download-delete that guy's song a bazillion times, the mere act of the download will run him into bankruptcy! I mean, someone is paying
each time a download occurs, right?