Re: The Screw is tightening:Illegal downloaders 'face UK ban


It can't be done.

The film industry tried to prosecute downloaders and it cost millions
so now they're just trying to pass the responsibility (and cost) onto
the ISPs all in the name of that great, but oh so convenient
(especially when profits are down), lie of copyright threat costing
the industry millions.

The lie is based on the wholly flawed assumption that if the pirates
were prevented from downloading then they would go out and buy the CDs
or DVDs instead.

Radiohead made their latest album available for download on their
website (cue record companies shitting themselves again) at whatever
price you felt was appropriate.

The average price paid was > £3 and when the album was eventually
released on CD, nine months later, it charted and sold every bit as
well as their other records plus they drew in many new fans that
otherwise may not have bothered (cue massive interest in the back
catalogue).

The difference between the likes of Radiohead and the record companies
is that Radiohead have the imagination to offer what the customer and
more importantly potential customers want. It's called marketing and
for years artists have suffered lazy record companies that couldn't be
bothered to do it, but not anymore.

The record and film industry needs to grow up fast or it's in danger
of becoming irrelevant. The Internet won't go away, despite all their
delusional attempts to make it do so, and it's providing what the
punters want but the record companies won't such as the ability to
obtain individual tracks from the latest releases and the ability to
watch a film on DVD without having to wait for it to end its run in
the cinemas.

At every stage this dying industry continues to display its fear of
the future rather than encompassing it. In any other sector this
behaviour would be labelled dinosaur and would get zero sympathy from
the politicians.

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