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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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That is certainly one view of what P2P is about. And alternate view might be that P2P is a natural (if not wholly legal) reaction to artificial and profit driven barriers to acquiring music that people like. There are a couple factors here -
First, who wants to buy a whole CD when they only want one song? If they were able to purchase it individually, it would save them money and the industry would still get its cut. The music industry failed to adequately meet the desires of the consumer.
That leads to the second point - if the music industry had jumped on the concept of digital music sales when it was still young, people wouldn't be in the habit of downloading music via P2P, which I think is as big a driving force as laziness/greed when it comes to downloading music. Once the foundation was in place, it became self-perpetuating.
Even now, they like to stick to methods that don't really work for them, or for the artist - namely DRM.