http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8073068.stm where the hell do they pluck these statistics from ????? oh because you use P2P you must be downloading something illegal lets multiply that (the users) by the average drop in sales of "X item" and then multiply by the average retail cost and therefore the industry is losing millions and millions and millions of pounds. you cant just make stuff up and add percentages everywhere and make sweeping statements like this. 2 very good reasons why this pisses me off. 1) the entertainments industry(labels and artists,actors etc) for music films etc make billions of pounds every year. THEY HAVE DECIDED THIS ISNT ENOUGH AND WANT MORE. 2) doing anything other than listening/watching the thing you bought (but only in YOUR HOUSE) is deemed illegal and you must purchase it again i.e. no backups, no copy for the car, no format transfer etc etc. It is about time the industry stopped taking the mickey and realised the consumer owns whatever he buys and can do what the hell he wants with it. make digital downloads cheaper as there are no material cost yet they cost the same as buying it on the high street. who pockets the extra the company and artist not the consumer !!!!
In fact, 40% to 55% of statistics are made up on the spot (with a margin of error of 12%). No, really. The American Journal of Statistics did some research a few years ago that just focused on large-city newspapers, and this is what they found. They also rated the papers for their factual accuracy and The New York Times came out on top. The Sacramento Bee was at the bottom.
From the article... Holly bum cakes, so that means if the bad people didn't download anything we'd all be £12bn richer? This demands a £12bn solution - get Jackie-super-Smith on it straight away! [/massive cynicism.]
oh not that s*** again. Srsly, I am so sick of hearing that. I mean, seriously, who really believes that (other than the morons that claim aspergers)?
43 million people eat Macdonalds every day, making them millions. See I can pluck figures out of the sky. Remember Kids, if you pay your taxes....your paying for the MP's to make wild claims for their expenses. Costing the tax payers Billions
Because someone wants to download the same file 200 times? until you sorted through the rubbish music to find something decent it takes more than 5 miniutes alone... Seriously, just becasue someone downloads something does not equal a lost sale, they really need to get away from that stupid idea. Example Microsoft Office, so easy to download illegaly, does that mean lost sales for ms? no, because if it would be impossible to get a illegal copy of it people would just use openoffice (or one of the 500 other free alternatives). Besides:
