Damn the stats!

Garp · 21-12-2009, 20:07

http://arst.ch/bi1

Love it. So the P2P sharing figures are going down etc, and evidence clearly shows people are moving towards legitimate sources but still big business is trying to push through laws in the UK that could seriously impact your internet access. That's even with the UK's All Party Parliamentary Communications Group concluding that "much of the problem with illegal sharing of copyrighted material has been caused by the rightsholders, and the music industry in particular, being far too slow in getting their act together and making popular legal alternatives available."

No s**t sherlock. Seriously. Surely the significant growth in services like Pandora, Spotify et al. should be saying something? Successful business should be about giving the punters what they want, how they want, at a reasonable price they're happy to pay (be it actual cost or through advertising.) If you've got to push for legislation that infringes on people's rights, it's your business model that's wrong.

iCraig · 21-12-2009, 20:35

P2P might be going down, but how many veteran filesharers will throw in the towel and move to legal sources? Wouldn't the majority do what filesharers have always done and move on to the next method of getting free music? I wonder what the number of Usenet subscriptions have done the past 18 months.

divine · 22-12-2009, 00:10

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Originally Posted by Garp

No s**t sherlock. Seriously. Surely the significant growth in services like Pandora, Spotify et al. should be saying something? Successful business should be about giving the punters what they want, how they want, at a reasonable price they're happy to pay (be it actual cost or through advertising.) If you've got to push for legislation that infringes on people's rights, it's your business model that's wrong.

This is exactly it.

Provide the customer a better product if they clearly do not like what you're offering.

Continually beating people into submission will not work and will sour the general view of the industry.

21-12-2009, 20:07	#1
Garp Preparing more tumbleweed Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 6,038	Damn the stats! http://arst.ch/bi1 Love it. So the P2P sharing figures are going down etc, and evidence clearly shows people are moving towards legitimate sources but still big business is trying to push through laws in the UK that could seriously impact your internet access. That's even with the UK's All Party Parliamentary Communications Group concluding that "much of the problem with illegal sharing of copyrighted material has been caused by the rightsholders, and the music industry in particular, being far too slow in getting their act together and making popular legal alternatives available." No st sherlock. Seriously. Surely the significant growth in services like Pandora, Spotify et al. should be saying something? Successful business should be about giving the punters what they want, how they want, at a reasonable price they're happy to pay (be it actual cost or through advertising.) If you've got to push for legislation that infringes on people's rights, it's your business model that's wrong. __________________ Mal: Define "interesting"? Wash**: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"?

21-12-2009, 20:35	#2
iCraig iCustom User Title Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2,250	P2P might be going down, but how many veteran filesharers will throw in the towel and move to legal sources? Wouldn't the majority do what filesharers have always done and move on to the next method of getting free music? I wonder what the number of Usenet subscriptions have done the past 18 months. __________________