Universal claims P2P robs farmers

The arguments of the claim are just hilarious. Here's the uber-logical chain:

People download movies of P2P networks >> They don't go to cinemas >> They don't eat popcorn >> Farmers lose a lot of money.

inq notes that you could say the same about P2P robbing car-makers, because people could drive to cinemas on cars that they haven't bought [uhuh, because of P2P]. What is more, The Wall Street Journal's statistics say that corn prices have jumped up 50% during the last year (from $2.08 to $3.83 for 25kg). Even if there is a way to correlate P2P networks and corn makers, the latter should be happy.

Seeing how RIAA is being ruled out helpless against students and other people as ISPs no longer have to disclose customer information, this very news makes it clear that companies like RIAA, MPAA and any other music-labels are pretty much helpless now and any lawsuits against creators/owners of P2P networks or individual users are ridiculous.

Stay tuned and check out how else will they humiliate themselves.

DRM vs CD vs piracy

Why do we buy music? Why do we buy CDs? Do we want to support the recording label? Hell no! We want to support the artist that we like (love, adore, etc). I'm for buying digital nonDRM content. After all, if most actually buy music, it's going to be better. And there are always going to be people who do not want to pay, who are going to steal. Uhm... w/e... their choice.


*In russian: $5-5.50: what the label gets; $0.50-2: what the musician gets