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On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:26:22 +0200, "Pegasus [MVP]" <...@microsoft.com
Wrong newsgroup - not in any way related to Windows XP.
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On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:55:34 +0100, "Tim Meddick" <...@gawab.com
They do say that, despite the industry's protestations, recording sales
have not unduly affected by the current trend in illegal downloads....
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
"OnurCc" <...@no-mx.forums.xpheads.com...
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:04:13 +1000, "Pedro" <...@misp.com
"OnurCc" <...@no-mx.forums.xpheads.com
The industry line is that piracy steals $millions or $billions from them.
Their numbers assume that without piracy, the same movies/songs/software/etc
would be purchased. This is demonstrable crap.
MS, for example, became the dominant software company BECAUSE OF, not in
spite of, wholesale copying/piracy.
Commodore/Amiga/Osborne/Acorn/Altair games, software etc on floppy disks
were hard to copy (remember Dissector?) - with the XT PC, software was very
easy to copy.
The PC prevailed - the others died.
Quod erat demonstrandum
Pedro
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