"The real solution is in the change of mentality. With prosecutions and significant financial penalties, the people who are thinking about it might not do it. The guy considering opening a torrent tracker or running a file share site might not do it."
There'll always be places that don't have such stringent laws on filesharing (or the resources or willpower to prosecute these "criminals"), e.g. Asia, Europe, etc. If it starts getting really bad in North America, people will just move their servers and services elsewhere, which in turn will hurt the economy. I know personally that if anything happened in the States and I was forced to shut down anything I'm currently running from there, I could easily move it elsewhere at the drop of a hat (which would also move all the money I'm putting into their economy via bandwidth, hosting, etc., OUT of the US economy, which at some point hurts the music industry anyway.)
"So if 30% of all users download now, and you move that number down to 15%, it makes all the difference in the world."
Um, this seems to be assuming that filesharers don't buy music? There have been studies that show that filesharers buy at least as much music (or even more) than non-filesharers. So that's just another bogus point.
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"The real solution is in the change of mentality. With prosecutions and significant financial penalties, the people who are thinking about it might not do it. The guy considering opening a torrent tracker or running a file share site might not do it."
There'll always be places that don't have such stringent laws on filesharing (or the resources or willpower to prosecute these "criminals"), e.g. Asia, Europe, etc. If it starts getting really bad in North America, people will just move their servers and services elsewhere, which in turn will hurt the economy. I know personally that if anything happened in the States and I was forced to shut down anything I'm currently running from there, I could easily move it elsewhere at the drop of a hat (which would also move all the money I'm putting into their economy via bandwidth, hosting, etc., OUT of the US economy, which at some point hurts the music industry anyway.)
"So if 30% of all users download now, and you move that number down to 15%, it makes all the difference in the world."
Um, this seems to be assuming that filesharers don't buy music? There have been studies that show that filesharers buy at least as much music (or even more) than non-filesharers. So that's just another bogus point.