RizzyKing

So Mr Angry your saying every download is a sale lost are you ?? so when a person has spent their available money for whatever period you think they will magically come up with more to buy the stuff that they end up downloading. I am not an advocate or supporter of piracy at all and have condemned it in the past on this and every forum i am a member of but for you to make out that every download is a sale lost is ridiculous.

Also recent studies have shown that pirates have a beneficial effect in terms of people that don't download buying on a recommendation now i highly doubt that is on a massive scale but it shows the issue isn't as simple as you and others wouold like to make out. I wasn't talking about retail outlets as i think your well aware when i talked about increasing profits but the major media companys that constantly spout how downloading is killing them. Same companys who put maximum pressure on retail outlets to cut what they sell the stuff for but never drop the prices they sell the stuff to retail for

If you cast your mind back to the eighties wasn't there that statement from them that unless tape to tape recording was stopped there would be no music industry in ten years yeah that came to pass didn't it. This issue is not as simple as either side make it out to be it isn't black and white and until all involved in this realise that we are never going to see any sort of resolution.