Hi,

Before adding my first post I want to say that congratulations for this
great forum.

Last week I came across a survey and according to that 80% of Britain,
France, Germany and U.S people admit to downloading video illegally from
the net. What do you think about this issue? I mean who will win
governments or piracy? As you know, torrent site piratebay is a
political part in Sweden and already won a seat in European Parliament
Elections.


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OnurCc
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Wrong newsgroup - not in any way related to Windows XP.

They do say that, despite the industry's protestations, recording sales
have not unduly affected by the current trend in illegal downloads....


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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"OnurCc" <OnurCc.3u4ucm@no-mx.forums.xpheads.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> Before adding my first post I want to say that congratulations for
> this
> great forum.
>
> Last week I came across a survey and according to that 80% of Britain,
> France, Germany and U.S people admit to downloading video illegally
> from
> the net. What do you think about this issue? I mean who will win
> governments or piracy? As you know, torrent site piratebay is a
> political part in Sweden and already won a seat in European Parliament
> Elections.
>
>
> --
> OnurCc
> Posted via http://www.xpheads.com
>

"OnurCc" <OnurCc.3u4ucm@no-mx.forums.xpheads.com> wrote

> Last week I came across a survey and according to that 80% of Britain,
> France, Germany and U.S people admit to downloading video illegally from
> the net. What do you think about this issue? I mean who will win
> governments or piracy?

The industry line is that piracy steals $millions or $billions from them.
Their numbers assume that without piracy, the same movies/songs/software/etc
would be purchased. This is demonstrable crap.

MS, for example, became the dominant software company BECAUSE OF, not in
spite of, wholesale copying/piracy.

Commodore/Amiga/Osborne/Acorn/Altair games, software etc on floppy disks
were hard to copy (remember Dissector?) - with the XT PC, software was very
easy to copy.

The PC prevailed - the others died.

Quod erat demonstrandum

Pedro