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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
In reality it's not just the recording industry that is affected by wanton piracy - there are ancilliary industries, ordinary people with real jobs, that suffer.
Illegal downloading with impunity was great while it lasted - sadly for those who have become accustomed to it / endorsed it those days are coming to an end.
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I have to agree. There are all too many people who simply don't buy content and instead download it. There are also far too many people downloading content in considerable amounts. It was much more reasonable in the early 2000s but is too OTT now and something does need to be done to tone it down a bit.
Getting it less mainstream along with kicking the backsides of those who download several hundreds of GB of content a month will be just fine.
The concern is it going too far and affecting those who very occasionally download things here and there to 'plug gaps' while also buying a lot of content.
Of course people will go underground to some extent, which is fine, just getting it out of mainstream and away from people who just go to a self-search news client or P2P client, do a search and leech on would be alright, along with kicking the backside of extremely heavy users - there is very simply no realistic legitimate way to consume 500GB a month.