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Originally Posted by Angua
The majority of people on low incomes either rent the DVD or borrow music from the library at a very reasonable price. If the cost is too high we do not buy - basic economics.
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I don't want to argue, but 'majority' as in who? The majority of what - people you know or talk to, or ..?
I (genuinely, not being awkward) ask because virtually EVERYONE I come into contact with - be it friends, relatives, neighbours, parents and people who bring their PCs, laptops and iPhones/Touch etc to be fixed/cleaned up ALL either have kids who download from P2P or do it themselves. None of them care about CD covers, lyric sheets or credits and much less a physical copy. All they want is that top ten album on their iPod for school/gym/the car or whatever. A relative used to get all the CDs he wanted off the 3 quid each, 2 for a fiver bloke at work, but now it's all free!!! He just asks his son and he's got it the same day. No-one needs 50mb broadband or even 10mb broadband. 2mb will do for a 60mb album in MP3 format.
And while I'm reasonably sure some of us do still enjoy picking up a vinyl album or single, and wait for the release day to pop into a shop and buy the CD, I'm also reasonably sure most of us know that in AnAverage Town in JoePublic Land the majority of kids' MP3 players are full of Rihanna's songs pulled from Limewire.
I recently had an iPod Touch in for repair that needed a restore. I asked them why didn't they do it themselves with the software they use for it. They said what, Bit Torrent?
in short, it's rife and has been for as long as I can remember.
If this all stops the the average user downloading at home, the bloke at work with the A4 lists downloading via NNTP & SSL will be happy again - until everyone works out how to do it.