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It'll just become an electronic arms race. As it is, hackers have disabled the best secure protection efforts on the day of release, occasionally even pre-release. If the industry is given a licence to hack, it's just going to mean that the file swapping community will load up on countermeasures tools and go disable industry computers...
It's counterproductive for the industry to attack fans- look at the whole Napster/Metallica thing (I know a lot of ex-Metallica fans now.)
Truth is, the entertainment industry is massively bloated and the lion's share of the rewards go to the money men and a few top creatives. I actually think it's pretty neat that under current conditions too much fame lowers the percentage of listeners who get their hands on the product legitimately. This whole file- sharing bit hits the majors, but at the same time it's a recipie for diversity and independence- acts running their own mini-industries are still doing just fine, thank you, and even benefit from people sharing their stuff because it gives them access to alternative mass distribution channels. |
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