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Originally Posted by jdimitri /img/forum/go_quote.gif Actually.. There needs to be some force to stop illegal music distribution before music dies You know in this generation, many people think that downloading music is the ONLY way to get music? Imagine what will happen in 50 years when this generation is dominant |
Originally Posted by asmox /img/forum/go_quote.gif Do you have any idea how much music I've purchased over the last few years due in large part to discovery through file sharing? The 600-odd albums racked down in my basement would probably be cut down to about a quarter of that. Hell, I wouldn't even be aware of many of my currently favorite artists. |
Originally Posted by carlosgp /img/forum/go_quote.gif Well, when I was in high school I do not think even 1 in 10 people bought regularly LPs. Most people were recording and copying tapes And much more people are buying music today than at the end of the eighties. This is one of the lies of the music recording industry. They want to make us think that sales are falling fast. And this is simply not true... Not yet |
Originally Posted by jdimitri /img/forum/go_quote.gif Edit: sorry, i think it might be the brainwashing in action.. but the people that never pays for music in any way.. Surely there should be a consequence to it, no? |
Originally Posted by asmox /img/forum/go_quote.gif File sharing is not going to kill music. The very notion is pretty naive, I'd say. For every person who thinks that P2P is the only way to get music, there is another person who uses P2P as a way to discover new music, or as a glorified try-before-you-buy system (yes, I know that even this is illegal by way of capitalism and caveat emptor, so please don't start that argument), or as a medium to distribute his own music to the world. Do you have any idea how much music I've purchased over the last few years due in large part to discovery through file sharing? The 600-odd albums racked down in my basement would probably be cut down to about a quarter of that. Hell, I wouldn't even be aware of many of my currently favorite artists. File sharing, and the Internet in general, is a potentially huge benefit to music. It isn't without its negatives, sure, but to say that it's going to "kill" music is utter effing madness. |
Originally Posted by jdimitri /img/forum/go_quote.gif Imagine what will happen in 50 years when this generation is dominant |
For every person who thinks that P2P is the only way to get music, there is another person who uses P2P as a way to discover new music |
Do you have any idea how much music I've purchased over the last few years due in large part to discovery through file sharing? The 600-odd albums racked down in my basement would probably be cut down to about a quarter of that. Hell, I wouldn't even be aware of many of my currently favorite artists. |
to say that it's going to "kill" music is utter effing madness. |