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Offline and online celebrity Stephen Fry has launched an attack on the anti-piracy industry, calling anti-piracy ads on DVDs "preposterous" and calling the entire industry "blind" when it comes to relate torrenting to stealing handbags.
He goes on to suggest that download prices are unfair and that the music industry was acting like "Big Tobacco".
One interesting note I found elsewhere and reading the comments of the link below was that in order to fill an 80GB iPod with paid music, you would be spending tens of thousands of dollars for a device that costs 100 times less. The only sensible use for such devices would then be for storing pirated content. It seems to me that the hardware industry is profiting off the expectation that people are using their devices for piracy. So the solution to me is to have more reasonably priced, all you can eat, type services and let the consumer fill up their iPods with purchased music. I think $20 per month for all you can download music is something a lot of people are willing to pay for, ditto with movies (perhaps at a higher premium). It would be the scale of the thing that the industry profits from, because I can see millions upon millions of subscribers in the US alone - that's at least $20 million in revenue per month that the music industry is missing out on right now, while they spend millions in lawsuits and DRM that doesn't work.
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He goes on to suggest that download prices are unfair and that the music industry was acting like "Big Tobacco".
One interesting note I found elsewhere and reading the comments of the link below was that in order to fill an 80GB iPod with paid music, you would be spending tens of thousands of dollars for a device that costs 100 times less. The only sensible use for such devices would then be for storing pirated content. It seems to me that the hardware industry is profiting off the expectation that people are using their devices for piracy. So the solution to me is to have more reasonably priced, all you can eat, type services and let the consumer fill up their iPods with purchased music. I think $20 per month for all you can download music is something a lot of people are willing to pay for, ditto with movies (perhaps at a higher premium). It would be the scale of the thing that the industry profits from, because I can see millions upon millions of subscribers in the US alone - that's at least $20 million in revenue per month that the music industry is missing out on right now, while they spend millions in lawsuits and DRM that doesn't work.
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