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Originally posted by allanuk
I am in the UK and used to listen to MTV2 on Sky. This was music from EU. Often France and Germany. Often they played some very cool music. Yet you would never hear this in the UK as the music industry is dominated by a few big firms who are only interested in selling tripe boy bond groups.
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They do the same stuff to us in America as well. We see all sorts of headlines for people and groups like Britney Spears, N Sync and other crappy faddish junk music groups (and I use that term very loosely). Much of the stuff I like listening to now is not stuff that I will ever hear of in newspapers, radio, etc. Guess how I heard about many of them, P2P filesharing!
These groups now have my patronage and they would not have had it without "music stealing" programs. If they sell a CD, each band member makes something like $0.20, if they get that much. However, they make a hell of a lot more then that when I go to their shows and buy concert t-shirts. Had P2P not existed, they would have nothing from me, because I wouldn't know of their existence.
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