
By John Borland
Published: Tuesday 30 March 2004
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Name
Tormod Carstens
Location
Trondheim, Norway
Occupation
Engineer
Comment
This certainly reflects my own behaviour. I have never understood the threat view of the industry. When I download music, it's normally old stuff that's not even available anymore (I'd love to hear 'Next' with Alex Harvey right now, but the CD isn't exactly easy to get nowadays, is it...), or I download as a preview before buying. If anything, filesharing has increased my buying CDs. however, the 'war' on filesharing has made a BIG impact on my attitude towards the music industry. I used to think they were a "necessary evil" that I would defend even if they did give the artist a way too tiny share of the profits, but now they're in the "shameless ba****rd selfish capitalist" bracket and I couldn't care less if the whole dirty business collapsed.
This certainly reflects my own behaviour. I have n...
Tormod Carstens
So: university-level research finds file sharing d...
Anonymous
Well I don't download music at all, but I have red...
Andy
Pretty sure that's true. Nammer and Hail did a sim...
Alan Reid
The public have been complaining for years about t...
P Biggs
In response to Tormod's comment, Next by the SAHB ...
Grumpy
i've bought more cd's since i've been on broadband...
kirsty
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