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[challenge entry] The graph 'They' don't want you to see

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(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:29, archived)
# It's so true...
:D
(I helped save b3ta! Fresh Water Mole loves his baby boy more and more every day, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:30, archived)
# Well it's not really true is it?
There's plenty of good movies (eg. Pan's Labyrinth) and music (eg. In Rainbows) that have emerged in recent years.

Downloads rise with faster net connections, greater storage capacities and more savvy users.
(I helped save b3ta! Jamie_W If your life had a face I would punch it., Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:37, archived)
# Yes, those were great. And nobody downloaded them illegally. Did they?
(I helped save b3ta! Fresh Water Mole loves his baby boy more and more every day, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:44, archived)
# Oddly enough
although you could quite legally go on the In Rainbows website and download it for 0p, I spotted it on Demonoid as a bittorrent for some reason.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:48, archived)
# Pffft.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:30, archived)
# Haha! Yes!



(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:31, archived)
# but which causes which?


I need to know - do I download music illegally because it's rubbish and not worth paying for, or is music rubbish and not worth paying for because I'm only going to download it illegally anyway?

ARG
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:31, archived)
# the internet is to blame for everything
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:32, archived)
# The internet can't be blamed for that
home taping had already killed music.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:33, archived)
# I forgot
that home taping killed music twenty five years ago

how have we coped?
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:39, archived)
# even things which happened before the internet
... or is the internet also a time machine from the future?
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:33, archived)
# Futurama proves that Al Gore
did invent it!
(I helped save b3ta! Mr.Ons knows you can hear him, Earthmen., Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:39, archived)
# brilliant
but a coincidence i think. Those fuckers still make a fortune even thought the music and films have gone to hell.
(I helped save b3ta! op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:35, archived)
# in practice I agree -
those poor underpaid multimillionaire musicians and record execs... feckem!

but local music, download the rest.

... there is another factor, and that's this: because (some) people are downloading rather than buying, and all current music is arse, those Godly bands of the past who expected to have their back catalogue keep them in drink and drugs well into their 90s are having to reform and tour again.
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:36, archived)
# hahahaha!
Did you hear that Ian Astbury of the Cult spilled the beans that Led Zep were indeed doing a world tour, even though they maintained it was only a one off...?
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:40, archived)
# yeah - I'm conflicted
Zed Lep are among my favorite crusty old rock bands and I'm often told off by the missus for 'getting the Led out' ... I'm not sure I want to see them touring.
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:44, archived)
# get your lad out instead
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:45, archived)
# YAY
*strums*
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:49, archived)
# I legally downloaded a copy of 'Bugged At My Ol' Man' the other day
/doing my bit to keep the Beach Boys in carnauba wax blog
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:42, archived)
# Thats not what they tell us
"Piracy costs the industry a billion dollars a year"

NO... spending £200 million on transformers surely contributed to that.

Paying Robbie Williams £83 million contributed to that...
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:37, archived)
# exactly.
well put!
(I helped save b3ta! op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:40, archived)
# The great thing about the Intarwebs
is that it is putting media into the hands of The Peeps.

The downside of this, of course, is there's an huge amount more of shit to wade through.

My arts, for example.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:37, archived)
# hippy...
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 9:44, archived)