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File Sharing Lawsuits Don't Deter Students
from the nice-try,-but-no dept
For a while now the music industry kept threatening to sue students for downloading music to "send a message" to all those college kid criminal... I mean customers out there. So, now that they've gone ahead and sued some college students (even if the lawsuits seem to have a few holes), college students are saying it doesn't impact them at all. Most say they won't stop file sharing online, and think the music industry is making a huge mistake in treating them like criminals. The writer of the article tried to find a student who didn't download music, and could only come up with one who chose not to, just to avoid the related viruses and spyware that often come with downloading music. When will the music industry realize that they're trying to hold back the tide here? Embracing the technology would have been smart, but now an entire generation has been taught that the music industry is "against" them. It won't be long before people look back on this strategy as the "suicide ploy" of the old music industry. In the meantime, new players in the music industry will come up with ways to embrace the technology, give consumers what they want and make money at the same time. By the time the old music industry realizes what's happening it'll be too late.
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Shortly after the stockholders/corporate parents realize that instead of finding profitable solutions the labels+execs have actualy become part of the problem and start replacing them.
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That's my $2... my $.02 was way too far overdue.
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This whole sit. is B.S. they built the system with the cd writters, and portable mp3 players, and once they grew it large enough, they are cashing in for complete control.
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