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Story: Major ISPs to issue file-sharing warnings
This treats the symptoms, not the cause
All the talk this week of sending letters to file sharers has missed the point.
Yes file sharing can deprive musicians of revenue (there is a separate issue about how the rich, well known names distribute some of their revenue to encourage new blood).
But why do people file share?
Perhaps the record companies should look a little closer to home. Why are they still charging 15 to 25 pounds for an album? Why did the record companies not want to know about Napster and instead tried to shut them down?
The answer.....greed!
Yes the record companies have been too greedy for too long. The public know this and therefore have decided to take matters into their own hands.
The sooner the record companies stopping ripping off customers and give them a sensible legal option to download music, the sooner illegal file sharing will fade away.
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