The beginning of the end for P2Ps/Torrent Sites?

[King of Snake]

Originally Posted by Sean

But making your videos available to be viewed on Youtube as an advertising tool to sell DVDs of your movies and TV shows is very different from having people illegally download them to their computer so they can burn it to DVD for free and watch them any time or place they choose.

Not sure how different it is really.
And you could apply the exact same principle to marketing music. Except that instead of youtube you have p2p networks. Make music available for free online as an advertising tool for your concerts and merchandise (and better quality copies of the music on cd or paid download). The principle is exactly the same.
There's always gonna be people who will settle for the inferior quality donwload and not buy the cd, just as there will be people who will be perfectly happy to watch Python clips on youtube and never buy a dvd, but still they decided to embrace the idea of online filesharing rather than fight it, as they literally say in the video.

I seem to be repeating the same points over and over at this point to little avail though, so I guess that's that. Some people just don't seem to want to accept that stealing the work of artists - especially smaller independent artists - hurts those artist's careers and lives. As a smaller independent artist in the music industry myself, I can attest to it.

Now Sean, just because you keep repeating the same point doesn't mean that other people can't disagree or try to provide different points of view.
And while I sympathise and understand that you feel passionately about this, I have to say that just because your are an independant artist yourself doesn't make your point of view the only right one. (I'm sure that's not how you meant it but it does come across like that in your last paragraph).