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Originally Posted by Chaohinon
Downloading doesn't take any money out of the artists' pockets, their record labels do.
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ex-fuckin-actly
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Instead of adapting and changing with the times, the record labels stubbornly clung to the CD (can't really blame them, it was a huge cash cow). They chose to go gestapo like, first on the filesharing networks as a whole. When that didn't stop people, they chose to "make an example" of individuals by sending nasty cease and desist letters, and then taking them to court. This hasn't worked either. At what point will they give up? or at least back down?
edit: to answer your question, I don't think it makes up completely for lost record sales.. certainly a portion though. What's sad is that in addition to the often middle class victims of filesharing settlements and cases, the recording artists also suffer due to the RIAAs complete lack of foresight and vision on the digital music age