alidog

Whilst I take your point, you're assuming that the sales of CDs are 100% profit.

If a CD costs £4.50 to make (After retailers / distributors get their cut) then 50,000 * 50p is £25,000, whereas 10,000 * £5.50 is £55,000.

And to add to the FM/CM piracy list, the first time I saw CM was the original version on a mate's Amiga. As with all Amiga games, it was a pirated copy (Has anyone ever even seen an original Amiga game? Did they even exist? ). I only had a megadrive, but when my father bought a PC I've bought every CM since. Without that pirated copy, it might have been a long time before I saw CM again.

Same applies to loads of games - Sensi Soccer and Speedball 2 I first saw on this mate's Amiga, then went out and bought them for the PC.

retired_brat7

I agree with most of the guys article tbh, I buy albums of the bands I like and albums I like, I go to see bands I like when they are in the country on tour and probably 90% of the bands I like are from listening online on myspace/purevolume etc

if somebody makes a rubbish album, it gets deleted and I don't bother with them again, but if their album is good, I will buy the physical CD to support :thup:

retired_corzawoodja

All these geeks downloading music for free... surely thats significantly boosting gig revenues for smaller artists?

How much does touring contribute to an artists income?

retired_Angela Adams

Thinking about carrying out my own personal study of how downloading affects sales.

retired_eaglepdub

They aren't going to win against piracy, they have already lost. The best they can hope for is that they see sense and create a service that allows people to listen to whatever they want for monthly fees, but I doubt that will happen either.

retired_luvbugg01

I had the original of CM 93/94 for the Amiga \o/
My proximity to the Barras at the time meant it was one of the few legal games I possessed /o\

retired_derek

I have no idea what i'm paying Napster for then.

retired_derek

I bought A-Train.

That was a waste of money

retired_katie14

Don’t know anyone who had original Amiga games. Why did they always come in such a massive box?

retired_derek

I had quite a few original games tbh. Mainly because most of the time, the cracked games didn't actually work properly once cracked, so if i really liked them when playing the cracked version, i'd actually go out and buy it.