Bold Lump
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Aren't the users the hosts of the actual files? Isn't that what peer-to-peer means? If they are, and the ISPs want to do it and co-operate with each other, then they probably CAN stop filesharing
In this incarnation perhaps, but people will use technology to find another way as soon as they have to. There's no way to find out the figures but i bet that Britney's latest album was pirated far more off isolated hosting sites than it was P2P.
Sure you can fit thousands upon thousands of albums in an envelope. In this day and age how do you stop the wholesale transfer of data?
Anthony users of those sites are generally the most conscientous of downloaders and many spend an awful lot on music. There are some though that have never had access to a well stocked independant store, so the music as physical artifact was never an attraction, mostly people in their teens or early twenties.
and besides the little boys don't have the money for the marketting or the distribution. if the sites weren't there they wouldn't have a fraction of the people listening to their music. How many would choose to be completely unheard of and broke, over being heard and still being broke.