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From:
John Reading
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Date:
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:02:39 -0500
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RE: [idm] Indie Ethics
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A little census from my office. I know of about 10-15 people that openly share pirated works and never buy cds. NEVER. recent offerings: new Amon Tobin new Massive Attack new Kopernik last Aphex (when new) I'm sure there's many more...
quoted 16 lines -----Original Message-----> -----Original Message----- > From: daniel [mailto:daniel@aptrick.com] > > That is right on the mark. > > Whereas if said record label distributed cd's to a radio station > (promotion and radio play will inevitably increase album > sales) it is a > far cry different if mp3s are distro'd/pirated to a single user, when > the demographic typically indicates that people who regularly > d/k mp3's > rarely purchase music. While there is no hard evidence that people who > d/l music necessarily don't purchase music, I would bet two bucks that > they don't buy the same album they downloaded. > >
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