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Originally Posted by olblueeyes
The internet has bred a generation of people who feel they have a god given right to take things just because there is a means of obtaining it - they don't.
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Yes. Fine. So far we've established that people download stuff of the internet, regardless of applicable laws, because they can, even though there are people who think they shouldn't, for a bunch of reasons. The real question is not whether this is good or bad, but what to do to change things in a way that benefits everyone. Lamenting the way things are has never been the solution to anything.
The industry should innovate. Make obtaining music online so easy that "pirating" it just isn't worth the effort. As mrs. Kroes (the European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda) said about ebooks (a industry that faces much of the same problems as the music business) "
Piracy is fostered by [the] impossibility to buy legally."
If I can't buy a digital single because of some random lines on a map, I'll download it for free (e.g., the "If I Can't Have You" EP). If I buy a CD, and there's a bunch of digital-iTunes-only bonus tracks that I cannot buy because what music fan uses Linux anyway and I bought the damned overpriced deluxe edition so why isn't it in there to begin with ("Frying Pan" live from HCTB), I'll download 'em. If I can't buy 'em, I can't buy 'em. Don't come complaining to me if I download your music that isn't available for buying. Complain to the record companies. Have them fix the situation.