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| Songwriters: piracy "dwarfs bank robbery," FBI must act http://www.x404.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=8051 |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Mon May 03, 2010 11:40 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Songwriters: piracy "dwarfs bank robbery," FBI must act | |||||||||
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Tue May 04, 2010 12:30 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Songwriters: piracy "dwarfs bank robbery," FBI must act | |||||||||
Next it'll be worse than murder Then it'll be worse than rape Then it'll be worse than paedophilia Then if you do it you're a terrorist  I hope they ask Obama to do this, and in a Shaft like moment turns round and tells them where to go and stick their plans |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Tue May 04, 2010 12:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Songwriters: piracy "dwarfs bank robbery," FBI must act |
If they get it treated as theft, then the manufacturers could go after all the clone products as theft, and rather than the industry having to pay to resolve this, it will become a government burden. Imagine them being told by Apple to go after some company because they have copied an Apple product. Though maybe the songwriters are being sponsored by Goldman Sachs. 
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Tue May 04, 2010 9:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Songwriters: piracy "dwarfs bank robbery," FBI must act |
Damn, I was hoping there'd be some photos of People of Reduced Stature robbing a bank. That would rock. |
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Tue May 04, 2010 10:14 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Songwriters: piracy "dwarfs bank robbery," FBI must act | |||||||||
Dwarves bank robbery Dwarf's bank robbery ? |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Tue May 04, 2010 10:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Songwriters: piracy "dwarfs bank robbery," FBI must act |
Well that would be a fun line up. 
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| Author: | pcernie [ Tue May 04, 2010 12:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Songwriters: piracy "dwarfs bank robbery," FBI must act |
What an absolute load of cack. Here's the thing, the people 'stealing' the music were highly unlikely to EVER pay for it, so you haven't lost jack. Unless of course the downloads are being resold as CDs at a reasonable price somewhere  Oh, and I buy more music now than I ever did as a result of hearing it first (got burned with too many 'filler' albums over the years). I don't torrent music, but I'm assuming many use it as a testing ground. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Tue May 04, 2010 1:09 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Songwriters: piracy "dwarfs bank robbery," FBI must act | |||||||||
Lets assume that they stop all piracy by whatever means. Will you actually buy more? Probably not. Unless you hear it somewhere else you are unlikely to go out and buy it. I have one Hawaiian podcast that I listen to and actually bought a track off iTunes because of hearing it there. It was not available on Amazon as a CD, so bought it on iTunes. Without these forms of indirect listening will people actually go out and buy music. If you like pop music you can skip every artist album and just buy the "Now thats what I call music series" and nothing else if you liked it on the radio it will be there. |
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