Yet without the constant efforts to limit piracy the music business might already have gone tits-up long ago. If we all would pirate all our music, what would musicians live from?

Bollocks! I'm sick of hearing that the music comapnies could sell cds cheaper if there was no piracy. Yeah right! Without piracy they would rack their prices up as far as they could. For 60 years record companies have been ripping us off.

Hey! did you miss the CD revolution? Or maybe the 8-track farce? Or even the Compact Cassette thing? 

How much money did the record companies make by releasing all those LPs again on CD?  Oh and of course re-mastering and taking away that undefinable thing that made music what it was on LP and was lost when it gone digital!

I have NO sympathy for Sony or the others. They habitually screw the artists and the punters. Wanna tell me how a cd costs maybe $10 in the USA but costs $25 in the UK?

This whole thing is one big rip-off. They give us the technology and make us pay through the nose for it and then scream like stuck-pigs when we actually learn how to use to OUR advantage.

Back in the 50s, after the WW2, the UK gov went nuts trying to get everyone to buy a car because it would bring investment and jobs and improve the economy. Now they tax us stupid with road tax, gas tax and vat and try to stop us using the cars. Anyone notice how they're NOT trying to stop us buying them?

Oh I hear how they want us to buy smaller cars for the environment, but the taxes will remain and get higher year after year.

Getting back to the apps, I agree that maybe smaller companies can suffer because of piracy, but how many of them will take the bundle of $ bills and sell out to the big boys given half a chance?  Didn't DAZ do that with Bryce? And don't tell me it was for the love of Bryce. It was for the sales they hope they could make.

Nuff said.

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All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster

And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...