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and only benefits the media industry.
it benefits society by enforcing law. rights of ownership. it isn't in societies interest to encourage the breach of it laws by ignoring wholesale infringement. part of this piracy thing is that its taking the piss of law and up till recently there appears to be nothing that could be done about it.
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That book has a bit to wade through.
let us know if its any good. that's a serious investment of time to read it there for an e book which costs f all to 'publish'.
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but there is a healthy future out there for anyone that wants to grab it.
oh, well, when you put it like that.....
you lookin' to stake your claim in the new frontier partner?, since its all rivers full of gold for the takin' and all that. -
unit sales in the US grew by 11%.
so that's a yes, they did meet and surpass projected figures then. I was asking a question, for clarification not making a statement, as indicated by the ? at the end of the sentence.
how do you explain the downturn in the local indie market over the last 7-10 years. this is information directly from indie distributors and labels. You probably know a lot of em. They're quoting figures that directly contradict an 11% increase. is nz just a bubble in an otherwise buoyant industry?
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In the real world, if someone does something that costs them and benefits you, you pay for it.
in the real world business exploits are sometimes expected to take responsibility for the results of their product.
take cigarettes and the tax put on them to cover the health issues the country has to address because of them. -
No it's plain unit sales as sold in the USA and the UK in 2008
so the expanding marketplace isn't relevant to it but the increase in the us and uk market place as would be expected from population increase is.
To accurately view the figures I suppose one has to compare the increase in sales figures that took place to the projected sales figures they would be expecting under normal conditions (which obviously they're not experiencing for whatever reasons)? -
I did network engineer-y things.
that's good enough for me.
yelling "I'm smarter than you" without any background or explanation does little to convince me of your superior knowledge or infact any knowledge. addressing the points directly as cameron did adds weight to his argument, yelling troll adds no weight to yours.good to see why you're so anti this too, cos it means extra work for you personally :) not that you're bias or anything
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He knows what he's talking about. He dreams about networks and protocols.
yet you explained the ins and outs of it better, acknowledged the points I raised and gave some background to them.
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I linked to it earlier but unit sales of music are up around the world in 2008
does that figure take into account things like expanding markets and population increase.
total figures should go up each year as the world population expands and as previously untapped markets come on line that should also push the total sales figure up. If you take all that into account and the figure is still up then that's an increase, if its less than the projected amount then sales are being affected by something, be it piracy or shit product.
saying piracy plays no part in anything is a little naive though (not that you are saying this simon, you clearly said you think it does). look around, how have our friends and our own consumption patterns changed. anyone here not watch pirated movies from the net, or got a swag of not necessarily bought and paid for music on their ipod or computer?
be honest. if you said you haven't you're in the minority or you would be in my circle of experience, maybe its different where everyone else lives. -
Your sarcasm-fu is pretty crap as well
seems to work on you though :)