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Re:Why BuzzFeed Should Pay My Invoice For Copyright Infringe... by na85 on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @07:59PM (#6364469)
TPB wouldn't have taken off on such a rapid trajectory if the MPAA and RIAA hadn't been so content to gouge the public in decades past.

Rabid public adoption of music and video piracy is most certainly a function of the public's perceptions re: price/value and anger at blatant collusion on the part of record labels to inflate prices.

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Re:Why BuzzFeed Should Pay My Invoice For Copyright Infringe... by anigbrowl on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @08:45PM (#6364708)
Oh bullshit, most people couldn't give a flying fuck about that or they'd have boycotted the products before the internet came along. People like free stuff; it's not like they've been sending 1/10th of the money they saved on stuff they downloaded to the artists' fan clubs.
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