Re: [Mldonkey-users] interesting article

[Goswin Brederlow]

Klaus Imgrund <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:52:58 +0100
> MLdonkey <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The cost of p2p for music majors:
> > 
> > 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.

Its probably more about control. :)

They can't control whats shared on P2P but they can controll what the
big guys burn on pirate CDs.

Watch "Jossie and the Pussycats". Pink is the new orange.

MfG
        Goswin