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Old 01-20-2009, 03:28 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by kane View Post
The judge does make some sense. There are people who download a song/CD that would have never purchased it to begin with so you can't say if there were 10,000 downloads of a CD that it equals 10,000 lost sales. It does mean lost sales, but it is almost impossible to say how many lost sales it means.

That said it also means there are still 10,000 people that now own the CD and didn't pay for it which I feel is wrong.
I really don't think most of those people are in fact keeping the songs, they will download an album, listen to the tracks a couple of times. and junk them after they get tired of them. IT the modern day equivalent of taping a song off the radio and then rerecording over it when you get tired of the song.
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