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Originally Posted by entropy13
"So increasing taxes will reduce the deficit? If that were the case taxes would have never been decreased in the first place." Agree or disagree?.
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Depends on which economy we are talking about. In the US we need to cut spending to reduce dept. Not sure how this applies to the conversation.
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Agreed, it DID work and slow down the "paying for it" part.  Not everybody has a credit card, or can use PayPal. Yet physical media for music stayed at roughly the same price (and then the added DRM too) even though the PPP decreased. AND THEY BLAME IT ON PIRACY!?!?!? 
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Yeah. Mass digital distribution wasn't there before. When it came on to the scene media sales went down. Its not rocket science.
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Originally Posted by entropy13
Really? MP3 sites based in Russia (unless .ru means another thing?) allowing direct downloads beg to differ. And they're quite easy to use and get too. Haven't really used them much though, most (English mainstream) music nowadays suck.
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Again you give way to much credit to most people and how savvy they are. Most still try and download napster. Also I was responding to this statment...
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I don't think most people that downloaded music in the first place were really thwarted by DRM, since most places involving file sharing would just strip it off before uploading.
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