Monday, 28 January 2008

ALL THIS ONLINE SHARING HAS GOT TO STOP

-The digital music report 2008 says boldly that "the spread of unlicensed music on ISP networks is choking revenues to record companies and investment in artists, despite a healthy increase in digital sales in 2007, up approximately 40% on the previous year".

-Independent estimates say up to 80 per cent of ISP traffic comprises distribution of copyright-infringing files."

- all music can be put around the world so easily now its really effecting the music industry and angering all the music artists.

-Newspapers were first to realise that how much of a phenomenom the media age would be.

-almost every newspaper also has blogs, and reader comments, and pieces by journalists that don't appear in the print edition.

-They copy-and-paste entire articles from online newspapers to blog sites or to their own computer and they don't pay a thing. Then they read them or "share" them with other people who they might not even have met.

-In the past 10 years, hundreds - probably thousands - of journalists have been thrown out of jobs as newspapers and magazines because the companies have downsized

-Now there are loads of internet sites where you can get free amateur porn - exactly the same sort of stuff that people used to pay for.

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