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Originally Posted by Good Old Neon
Wow, just, wow.
So the fact that millions upon millions of folks no longer purchase music legally has had very little effect on the music industry?
I know what P2P is about, it’s about someone at some point purchasing say, the new Decemberists cd, and then uploading it to a filesharing (again, sharing is a simple euphemism) program so that others may download the album, illegally, at no cost to themselves. I understand proponents would like to make it appear as though they are Robin Hood like figures stealing from those big mean music labels, but at the end of the day, they’re just hurting the bands they claim to love.
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You mean the bands who see very little profit from the sale of that CD (especially if under contract from one of the big corps), and actually make the lion's share of their money from touring and merchandise? The bands who get free advertising and grow their fanbases through sharing. It's not about Robin Hood, it's about his Merry Men, all of them singing and dancing and enjoying the culture without silly barriers.
EDIT: and there were millions upon millions of people 'not' purchasing music before the internet. They copied it off the radio onto tapes, or taped it directly from vinyl.