News - Government can’t wait to start punishing file-sharers

[shaithis]

Exactly what conclusion are you drawing from those figures?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Exactly what conclusion are you drawing from those figures?

According to the study most of us gamers are older,depressed and overweight!! Perhaps it is the cost of the continual hardware upgrades!!

The study is only in the Seattle-Tacoma area of Washington state so TBH, it is only really applicable to parts of the US but not the entire world. Independent studies need to be done in many countries before any clear conclusions can be drawn about the average age of gamers worldwide.

More naturally skeptical of Industry facts, no matter the facts or the industry. I like all my facts independently verified and its rare to get that from industry groups.

A couple of independent sources is always useful, otherwise it is like believing everything a government says without thinking about it first.

[TooNice]

As has been proved many times by bands such as NIN and Radiohead that sharing music online can make you alot more money than not (For those who havent heard about it, both share their music on bittorent themselves, get more people to listen to it, then cash in by offering bonus features to people who buy etc).

That's not a proof. It's good PR, but you can't say for sure that it's a more profitable option. The two bands you mentioned were already well established before they started doing this - in contrast how many more internet-oriented independent artists do you think are still unknown to Joe public?