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Originally Posted by Lanik42
My guess would be contracts - in order to get your book published and distributed through a particular company, you probably have to agree not to sell the same product outside of their channels.
Sure, we have that option now. When P2P was first becoming popular, there was no such thing, at least not to any large degree. No, it wouldn't have stopped P2P completely, but I think that P2P would not have become every-day to your average person, which is why it continues and grows.
I'm not at all saying that their actions make the reaction right or acceptable. I'm saying that the industry that proclaims the evils of P2P had a large, if indirect, part in creating it.
And of course we haven't at all discussed legal use of P2P, which are various. Just because it's P2P, that doesn't inherently make it wrong, or even illegal.
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My favourite example is Nine Inch Nails who actively give their music away on P2P. Their latest, a tour sampler including them, Jane's Addiction and Street Sweeper is up on their site right now. Download in mp3, flac and other formats through direct download or on Bittorrent. All free, all great
