Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-6-2010

[andrewducker]

• Flamboyant Bravery Under Fire
  (tags: war military bravery)
• The Woo of Lost, reviewed by Adam Roberts
  (tags: lost scifi)
• Govt. announces big constitutional changes
  66% to get force an election - unless no government can be formed in 14 days. I like that.
  (tags: politics reform uk)
• Things I won't work with - a catalogue of really unpleasant chemicals
  (tags: chemistry science funny dangerous explosives)
• Fighting with teenagers: A Copyright story
  (tags: copyright music law filesharing sheetmusic)

Comments

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

This. We all taped music from the radio and from albums when we were younger, but I very much doubt it occurred on the scale it does nowadays. It took effort and required the purchase of blank tapes, which were far from cheap. Certainly looking at my collection of tapes from the 80's, less than 25% are copies.

To download mp3's requires almost no effort and no expenditure on media. I have no figures, but I would not be surprised if 90%+ of mp3's stored on computers worldwide were illegally obtained.

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[andrewducker]

Studies have consistently shown that people who download music are more likely to buy it than people who don't.

The majority of my MP3s come from my CDs. Which makes them illegal, admittedly, but that's something I really don't care about.