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Originally Posted by scastle
Two points..
1) The copyright laws (admittedly not the DMCA which I don't think applies in this country) have been around a lot longer than CDs...
2) IIRC The loser of a case pays the fees?
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The copyright laws have been around a long time but its taken quite a lot of lobbying to get the law so that they could get much more copyright protection on music and to make it easier to go after the filesharers. My point is really that they've spent far more trying to sue people than they needed to, if they'd gone after the business with a reasonable priced offering I might have some sympathy with them.
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Originally Posted by monkeybreath
iTunes store..... 79p x 2 for two tracks = 1.58 ... not that expensive IMO  |
As I could see it, the original quote was pointing out that downloads in general were cak.
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Originally Posted by ian@huth
It makes as much sense as Marks and Spencers prosecuting shoplifters. They are also M&S's customers.
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Its kind of like M&S saying right we've got a new way that we could distribute our products that reduces our logitics costs by 90% and reduces the ability of people to shoplift but instead of using it we're going to carry on charging £ÃÆ ’‚£Ãà¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚£ for our stuff but we'll hire 10 times the number of security guards and swat team to jump on everyone who shoplifts.