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Originally Posted by Sean
Ah - but what you fail to acknowledge is that the rampant free downloading is a direct result of the ease of stealing the files. No, it may not directly reflect the specific number of lost sales, but if it was equally easy to steal a CD from a music store, than that would probably happen almost as frequently as digital theft happens.
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I don't quite understand the analogy. But I don't think it really applies, people will download from the internet because it's not really hurting anything. CDs are things that people have to pay for. The thing is it is just not *that* easy to download things anymore, particularly obscurities - Soulseek is really the only good option. The lucritive digital download market seems to suggest that people are still willing to pay.