They really need to realise that filesharing is helping their buissness, not hurting it. I never bought CDs before Kazza. Now I download and listen to a few songs from a band, and go out and buy their CD. A friend can tell me to download a song they really like, and if I like it, I usually buy the CD. Suing your customers is a really bad buissness model.
Imagine all the low wage "I'm here because of the economy" jobs lost. The same for those automated checkout lines. The worker is being squeezed between a rock and a hard place. Outsourcing, insourcing, technology increasing productivity reducing need for workers. Soon there will be nothing left.
A few hundred years ago, nearly everyone farmed. All those jobs were eliminated by technology. They were, of course, eventually replaced by something else. The economy will fix itself, this kind of thing happens all of the time.
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They really need to realise that filesharing is helping their buissness, not hurting it. I never bought CDs before Kazza. Now I download and listen to a few songs from a band, and go out and buy their CD. A friend can tell me to download a song they really like, and if I like it, I usually buy the CD. Suing your customers is a really bad buissness model.
A few hundred years ago, nearly everyone farmed. All those jobs were eliminated by technology. They were, of course, eventually replaced by something else. The economy will fix itself, this kind of thing happens all of the time.
How long to you have to stand in line to check out? Well, that and they'll have 40 servers, but only 5 will be open.