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by jcranmer 3263 days ago
That's a bad idea. What you should do is don't consume BMG content in any form--legal or illegal. While the effectivity of boycotts is debatable, mass switching from purchase to pirating would merely be fuel for the fire of needing better tools to combat piracy.
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Piracy is going to happen - BMG should incentivize people to buy their music rather than chase down the few who obtain it illegally. The same argument has been going on since the Napster days with Metallica.
Much longer than that. But back then policing would have involved putting a policeman in every home. And only "commies" did that...