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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Now It's The UK's Turn For Some Bogus Piracy Stats
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>> | There are plenty of instances of misleading and otherwise bad stats
>> | being used by anti-piracy groups, like the recent BSA numbers from
>> | Canada that were basically made up. Now, a group from the UK is saying
>> | that piracy costs that country's economy tens of billions of pounds.
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> For a start, if each song had to be paid for were real, then people would
> not buy that many. The music industry benefits from piracy to get the
> audience it needs that IT CANNOT OBTAIN ANY OTHER WAY.
>
> So the tax man should take account of those two factors before
> jumping to conclusions about what it is gaining or loosing.
>
> If everyone is forced to pay because of a lie by BSA like entities, then it
> will be the end of the music business and the revenue stream
> for the tax man. And everyone will switch to listening to unsigned bands.
> See for example www.magnatune.com for stuff that is 'free' (or pay as see
> fit).
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> In any case, most money is made by bands doing gigs - not by selling records
> through labels.
A lot of musicians start via YouTube as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN4_g6UxdNo
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