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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/12 12:24, paul sutton wrote: > 1. the recording industry argument is that if you share this > material on file sharing sites, then neither the company or artist > get anything for it, and you are hurting the industry, which is > a fair argument until Known as the "lost sales" argument. > you realise how that money is distributed and it starts to > unravel. Also how the companies concerned are masters of creative accounting too. > The fact I can share a track illegally and that person then perhaps > goes out and buys that album anyway is probably never taken into > account. So its a sort of underground promotion ( as you said in > what you wrote above) There is also a third possibility where someone who couldn't obtain a "pirate copy" is never a potential customer in the first place. Since they would not (or in many cases could not) purchase a "legitimate" copy. I suspect that this may cover the majority of cases. With "lost" and "gained" sales being minority cases... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+lHJwACgkQsoRLMhsZpFcd4wCeJYhzrdLd5HauqflAa2T1OLT0 ZY8An01lWjvzO4zNYnlcwPtwK8qQQsL8 =nNVM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq