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Old 11-25-2015, 09:58 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station View Post
Yet we just heard that Adele's new album broke a sales record.

In my opinion the industry has tended to use file sharing as a scapegoat. It should be looking at the quality of its products, its marketing and its lack of innovatively creating niches in a way that responds to technological and societal changes rather than attempting to legislate against those changes.

Also, I definitely would "steal" a TV, and I'd "steal" everything and anything else, too, if it were somehow possible to make a copy of the TV or whatever so that the TV I copied from is unaffected and still in the possession of its owner.
Hey, man. You're taking money out of Walmart's pockets by doing that. How will they be able to exploit third world labor laws and pay people in the first world a sub-living wage?
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