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- anjci
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- Everyday musings, London
I have been meaning to mention this issue ever since returning from the UK.
The country is currently being brainwashed on the topic of music / movies / books piracy. File sharing programmes like Kazaa and DC++ are getting bucketfuls of criticism, and ‘honesty’ is being promoted. Coca Cola is running a contest, where a successful participant may win ‘a free download’. In small font: ‘fight piracy – choose your copyright-protected download’. It is all very impressive…
…and quite natural as well. UK is full of big record labels. Virgin and HMV, for instance, should both earn their living. The pressure from us ‘pirates’ has already forced them to mark down CD prices. Never mind that the CDs were, and still are, heavily overpriced. Musicians prefer fancy villas, y’know.
The funniest is that the above brainwashing seems to have success!.. Many Brits whom I have met sympathise with music artists and voluntarily choose to buy records, not download. Nothing wrong with that. However, I received not one look of disdain after admitting to a pirate way of life. Arguments like ‘it is a big club of friends who share their records’ do not work – if you would buy the CD yourself, they refute, then you should pay the record company. Full stop.
Bizarre. Very strange, at least. I thought everyone downloads these days.
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