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Originally Posted by Format C:
It's not only about money, but also (if not for the most part) about power and control.
What both sides really want, aside from money, is control over the goods, and the power to grant it.
A downloaded song, even if it's never listened by the downloader, is still a song out of the publisher's control.
And that's unacceptable.
So, better to lose a client and to have one less fan than to actually have a piece of music out of sight.
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That's exactly why I believe this to be solely a problem for the publishers and not the artists. I think that artists that have vehemently gone after independent small-scale personal file-sharing either didn't really think through what is actually to their advantage or have started to think just like the industry heads.