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From:
Esa Ruoho
To:
Jon Sands
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idm list
Date:
Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:22:09 +0300
Subject:
Re: waffles
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sure, but do remember to scrobble it to last.fm so we can get our fame On 21 October 2014 22:28, Jon Sands <fohdeesha@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 33 lines On 10/21/2014 2:29 PM, Juho Hietala wrote:> On 10/21/2014 2:29 PM, Juho Hietala wrote: > > you're disgusting, connor. > > > Lol, I think I'm going to illegally download the mediocre music of > everyone who has responded to this thread like above just because of how > shitty and childish they're being. > > You all remind me of Benn Jordan when he wrote a novel-length announcement > about how piracy was killing his sales and it really needs to > stop....except he forgot to set his Oink profile to private, and you could > see all 60GB of copyrighted music he had pirated in the last 12 months. > Super cool dude. Get off your high horses. Ever looked up and listened to a > track on YouTube that was copyrighted and illegally uploaded by a 3rd party > user? omg, you pirated, I can't believe you would ever listen to a > copyrighted track without paying for it. Every grabbed a track off of > soulseek? omg, you're a pirate. > > Music industry revenue is up, not down. Sales of LP's are up nearly 50%. > Paid audio streaming revenue is up more than 50%. Piracy isn't killing > anything, if anything it has caused revenue to increase, if you really want > to try and draw the shitty causation=correlation conclusions currently > being drawn in this thread. I think you're all just mad nobody wants to pay > $30 on bandcamp for your super indie bangers > > > http://business.time.com/2013/02/28/revenue-up-piracy-down-has-the-music-industry-finally-turned-a-corner/ > > -- > Jon Sands > >