CommieLog » U2 http://x111.com/blog/commsie ... Wed, 18 May 2011 12:11:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://x111.com/blog/commsie http://x111.com/blog/commsie/wp-content/plugins/maxblogpress-favicon/icons/favicon-81.ico CommieLog News: Sharing/”Illegal downloading” http://x111.com/blog/commsie/2008/02/13/news-sharingillegal-downloading/ http://x111.com/blog/commsie/2008/02/13/news-sharingillegal-downloading/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:57:20 +0000 CommSie http://x111.com/blog/commsie/2008/02/13/news-sharingillegal-downloading/ BBC News: Illegal downloaders ‘face UK ban’
People in the UK who go online and illegally download music and films may have their internet access cut under plans the government is considering.
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Music and film companies say that the illegal downloads cost them millions of pounds in lost revenues.
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Scary, they basically ask to spy on everything <_<

Guardian: All this online sharing has to stop
The IFPI – the International Federation of Phonographic Industries -…
On Thursday it published its digital music report for 2008, which says boldly that “the spread of unlicensed music on ISP networks is choking revenues to record companies and investment in artists, despite a healthy increase in digital sales in 2007, up approximately 40% on the previous year”. (If you’re wondering, those sales were $2.9bn (£1.45bn) for the year, including ringtones.)
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And of course there are games companies like Nintendo, which had to suffer people swapping their consoles’ ROMs over the net. You can imagine how damaged Nintendo was by that. It’s never been the same. It crawled away to sob in a hole and close up shop – am I right?
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Sales are failing~ *cough cough*
Nintendo is also totally failing (^OO)>

Afterdawn forums: U2′s manager: time to end ISPs’ free ride
Now on to sharing music…

When I was at school we had a system.. every week we sat with the music paper and looked through the new releases. Everybody as part of our little club chose one record to buy.. then we gathered on Friday in the music room (music club was cool.. our music teacher liked a pub lunch on a Friday and went to sleep by 2pm) and taped them all onto one tape.. this we copied on various machines for everybody who was a member of our club and had bought 1 record..

That was 30 years ago.. the technology may have changed, but the sharing instinct is still strong.
Sharing is caring~! Good reply in that thread.
How else would anyone or many enjoy all the good works?
What I do know is… that many CDs/albums, I have bought, only 1 to 4 tracks/songs were grand to acceptable…
Is most of the money going to the artist? And production and distribution costs? They charge way too much >_>

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