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Old 11-04-2011, 02:16 PM  
DamianJ
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DamianJ; Where is anyone suggesting otherwise?

In the video you posted. The idea to ban Domains is attacked without saying what should happen to sites whose sole function is hosting stolen material.

So they didn't SAY it, they just didn't NOT say it?

Fuck come one, you're brighter than this.

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Damian That's like suing a gun manufacturer for someone being shot. And although it might not be to your taste, youtube is giving voices to millions of people.

Well as guns function is killing people in most countries they are very tightly controlled.

Any gun fan will tell you it's purpose is to stop you being killed. You cannot blame the maker of something for a crime that someone commits with that something. Full stop.


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DamianJ;Destroyed? (music ind)

talking to technicians that work in music studios

So did they tell you the 67 billion I quoted was a lie? Find some citations.

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DamianJ;And rather than threaten creative industries, it suddenly gives Joe in his bedroom an potential audience of millions and millions of people to sell his product to. You really cannot possibly argue the internet is bad for creative people.


This is a illusion, most people on the internet visit very few sites. There was an article in the New Scientist about making a "viral video" . they said it was near impossible with 20 hours of video being uploaded every minute. You are just swamped must video just lost in the enormous amount of video online.

Ah, so because it is hard that means the internet is useless?

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In the UK media wages are falling, there are thousands of media graduates unemployed, and people prepared to work for nothing. Hundreds try and make that book, song, movie but the reality is without massive backing 99.9% are doomed to failure. Newer have so many UK independent feature films been made to be watched by nobody.
As was always the case. People always worked for nothing as runners to get in. Nowadays though, people are empowered to do it themselves with a fucking iPhone. And you think that is bad somehow? I am not sure I get your point. I say the internet is amazing because it has allowed creatives the chance to put there work out there. You think this is bad because...
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