1) Music in the mid 1990s was ridiculously expensive £15 for a CD album. It is no coincidence that file sharing developed as a response to these ridiculous prices.
2) VHS/DVDs/BLU-RAY video formats are a rip-off and always have been. I don't need expensive packaging for my movie. I don't need a format that changes every 10 years forcing me to rebuy everything. I just need the data stream. I should be able to download a film for £1.
3) The cost of legal downloads is just plain wrong. iTunes rips off UK customers mercilessly.
4) Choice online and in the shops is thin. I struggle to find some records that I could find on the high street a few years back.
5) HMV stop being a music retailer and went for DVDs and went for the pile em high sell em cheap greatest hits market.
The plan to ban people from the internet won't work. The government can't even enforce the driving ban properly. And drivers need a license. HM government have a fundamental misunderstanding of how file sharing works anyway. They seem to think people are swapping whole files like they did a decade ago. Nowadays each file is broken into pieces so small they can't be detected as illegal or not. How could they tell the difference between me downloading a fragment of a copyrighted song or me downloading a fragment of an mp3 file from an unsigned band that they uploaded for free? They could try and attack the infrastructure by killing the websites that host the torrent files but this would be a minor inconvenience and the torrent sites are doing nothing illegal because they are just hosting information and not copyrighted material. The last word comes from the internet service providers association
Internet providers are no more able to inspect and filter every single packet passing across their network than the Post Office is able to open every envelope
And they also don't want their best customers taken away.
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