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You have any idea how ridiculous this all sounds??? "They should give this free, give that free, free ". seriously dude, why don’t you try working for free, for a month and then tell me if you still have this same opinion etc...[/citation]
The truth is, everything is free if you don't want to pay for it.
Music, films, games, books, pay TV (if you don't mind not watching live). Most people who download this 'free' stuff don't want the artistic people to starve, usually they are the most enthusiastic supporters of those artists, they will go to the gigs, go to the midnight showing of the sequel at the theatres on launch day, they will buy the merchandise. But they have been ripped off time and time again, people have been charged 5 times for the same classic album, vinyl, cassette, CD, mini disc, MP3. 4 times for movies, in the theatre, VHS, DVD, Bluray.
The distribution model via bit torrent is the fastest and cheapest method to distribute media but as the media publishers have failed to get a handle on how to make money from it, the publishers have become non profit making, file sharers.
I advocate an internet tax, Internet Service Providers forced to charge a £5/$7 flat fee for all internet access, the music game & film studios releasing their own content in a free high quality non DRM format, with a tracking method so that the percentage of return from this online tax is paid to the artists and creative folk based on its distribution. No media costs, no promotional costs, no distribution costs, the internet hype, the message boards/social networking sites become the advertisers.
This is how it's being done now. The content is free and the market refuses to accept DRM and some smart people remove it and that is the content that is being distributed. The sooner the artistic creators, publishers & ISPs realise the old business model has gone and digital distribution is the present and the future. They need to come up with a flat rate fee to earn a wage and open up the distribution of their product to everyone online, the sooner this is done then we can all live in happiness and peace. This may sound like fuzzy wuzzy communism, but it's better than the anarchy and totalitarian multinationals who want to lock up kids for listening to music we have now.