Re: [Mldonkey-users] interesting article

[Klaus Imgrund]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:52:58 +0100
MLdonkey <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> The cost of p2p for music majors:
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> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/bw/20030213/bs_bw/tc200302139095_tc078
> 
> 
> - MLDonkey
> 
> 
It's a strange thing.
I live in Latin America for the last couple of years an any thing you can put 
on a cd or dvd is sold as pirated copy here.I'd estimate that about 30% of the 
total sales (not the gross because pirated is cheaper) are pirated software.
That's anything from software to movies.
The strange thing is that nobody - really nobody - does anything about it.
That might have to do with the fact that those copies are made by people that 
make a lot of money and are rather dangerous to deal with if you try to cut 
into their huge profits.
Much easier to just blame p2p for everything and set a couple of viruses free.
Plus the fact that there is mostly junk coming out of the music industry and 
world economy is down seems to get conviniently overlooked by their advocates.

Klaus