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• I don't see how this is a shock to the music industry. Its like them saying that did not know about piracy. It was always clear that younger people would download more music than older people.
  
  They need to work on a way where it is affordable for young people to buy music and then work on sanctions the other way to curb this problem. There is no technological solution that will solve piracy.
  
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  http://technicianspot.blogspot.com/ Posted by Tech Man, UK
• I care less for the entertainment industry, it's an over paid, self serving, repetitious load of rubbish. They entertain and that's it, beyond that it's a worthless industry consuming far too much wealth.
  
  So as for copying music... go for it folks... I couldn't care an bit. Posted by David, UK
• The days of people making money and achieving "fame" from producing popular music are numbered. All music should, and will be totally free in future - people will produce and distribute music, not to gain notoriety and money, but rather because they have a passion for producing music and would do it anyway whether there was money to be made or not.
  
  The music industry at the moment is corrupt, phoney and capital oriented. Most people just buy and listen to what the TV and radio tells them is currently en vogue without even thinking about what they like about a certain song or piece of music. Once the corporate nightmare that is the current music industry is dead, consumers will actually have to think about what sort of sounds and styles they actually like listening to and search out artists producing the relevant tracks. Genuine, passionate musical artists will be happy to distribute their music to genuine lovers of their work at no cost.
  
  The time of a career as a rock singer/pop star is over. If you want to make money from music, you're in in for totally the wrong reasons. Posted by Dan, England
• If Fergal Sharkey era had the equipment back then to copy easily then no doubt it would have been going on in a big style back then.
  
  As far as downloads are concerned all I ask is what ever happened to the supposed cost that cd's were going to be when tape was phased out? The public were told the price would drop to something like a £1 an ALBUM because of no moving parts on a cd. The music industry has created this problem due to their greed. Anyway, do you see any artist suffering? They are loaded because they get a part of the sale not the lot.
  
  It's a toss up I guess for people into music paying £16.99 an album or getting some other way. With most students on minimum wage and part-time jobs they would have to likely work 3 hours for a piece of entertainment that cost the producers 10p or less to make.
  
  Look at the prices they charge people, of course sections of people are going to be bootlegging.
  
  
  Posted by Mike, England
• I copy. I don't care. Take me to court. I bought the music, I OWN the music.
  
  If I sell you a chocolate bar, will I moan that you share a block or two of it with friends?
  
  In my own opinion, you give up rights to your "intelectual property" when you place it in a public place. If musicians are real musicians they will do it for the love of their music, not the love of their money. Posted by huckle, uk
• Shocked? Where have they been for the last few decades? I am in my mid 50s and as teenagers we all used to copy music onto our portable tape recorders, back in the 60s / 70s. Every week we listened to Top Of The Pops on the school bus. Oops, i guess someone would insist we bought a license for that now!
  Just like footballers, the musicians? (most of them don't know one note from the next) are a bunch of overpaid, mediocre people who have had their self importance vastly exaggerated by the slick marketing machine. Sadly, many of them believe what they hear the promoters saying about them.
  
  When music, and dvds, become realistically priced - no more than £5 per album, kids will be more likely to want to own the real thing, rather than download or copy it.
  
  Get your act together guys, you need to make people WANT to buy your product, in preference to copying it.
  
  Regards
  Grumpy Old Man who appreciates talented musicians. Posted by G.O.M, UK
• Has anyone ever tried to buy legal drm free non subscription downloads. It is almost impossible, It is so much easier to just copy it. Posted by fred, UK