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Sharing Increases Music Purchases?
darnellmc writes "See this News.com article which cites a study that shows file swapping increases music purchases. I guess it all depends on who is paid to do the study and how they carry it out, but this report would counter the study performed by an RIAA backed group, which noted that file swapping lowered music purchases. You would have to be one cheap individual to want to download all the music in your life for free and this study proves that. Because most people are obviously using file sharing to find new music to purchase. A concept the RIAA can not comprehend. If future major music releases are copy protected, it will be interesting how the RIAA will respond if they sell less." Well, if they sell less, it will be due to pirates, of course. A few weeks ago we mentioned Wilco, who released their album on their website for free. The strategy appears to have paid off.
I was watching Return of the Jedi last night and something struck me. Vader sudenly becomes a weak little baby after like three hard blows by Luke with his lightsaber. Vader deflected the blows but I guess it kind of tired him out. All the sudden he is breathing heavily and then he, what, trips over his own feet and gets his hand cut off? Come on, were talking a dark lord of the sith. I mean one of the officers could have beat him two or three times with a crow bar and taken over.
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i wish i had mod points, this is an obvious troll.. where are the moderators on friday evening? is this the Spider-man effect?
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what, <code> tags not supported? This is slashdot, right? The Gathering Place of Nerds?
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well, buy a more expensive looking keyboard and mod it with some leds or something, and voila - nostaliga no more.
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It's guiness time.
No, it's Guinness time. Yes it's petty, but restaurants/bars get this wrong all the time. As an Irishman, I feel I should defend our most popular export, even if I don't like it myself.