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I still think the argument "people will not pay when they can get it for free" is flawed. People vill pay if service is easy, fast, reliable. They will probably not pay if service is poor, difficult and overly expensive. For example I buy lots and lots of books on fictionwise, despite being a librarian whit accsess to thousends of free books. Quite a few of my books i hav several copies of (hardcover and pbook, hardcover and ebook or pbook and ebook. I really whant my favorite authors to keep on writing...
However, if said author calls me a thief for letting my sister read my books I lose interest in supporting said author.
And the creativity card "filesharing will stop creators from creating when they canīt put bread on the table" is ridiculus. People have a need to express themselves an create and vill continue to do so.
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Today people use TPB to test music, or movies or audiobooks out... Then they buy the good stuff and get rid of the rest. Sure some people will stop paying and just download but that is the way things are now. The publishers, record labels and movie studios will have to change, but they will not do so voluntary. If they could musicians in the 1920s would have stoped sound recordings in movie theaters and vi would still have musicians playing piano during the silent movie.
Also as someone pointed out, people in sweden get away with murder and paying like 50 000 crowns and the pirate bay guys have to pay 30 million. How is that right?
Clara
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