<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Maybe we're looking at this all wrong and are being gamed completely:<div><br></div><div>Read this 2010 article: <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirates-are-the-music-industrys-most-valuable-customers-100122/">http://torrentfreak.com/pirates-are-the-music-industrys-most-valuable-customers-100122/</a></div><div><br></div><div>...</div><div>Compared to music buyers, music sharers (pirates) are…<br><br>* 31% more likely to buy single tracks online.<br>* 33% more likely to buy music albums online.<br>* 100% more likely to pay for music subscription services.<br>* 60% more likely to pay for music on mobile phone.<br><div><br></div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe the whole idea is to turn us all into pirates because pirates are more likely to buy stuff from them thus their sales and profits go up?</div><div><br></div><div>MMC</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 03/05/2012, at 4:06 PM, Brett O'Hara wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-enjoys-12-million-traffic-boost-shares-unblocking-tips-120502/">https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-enjoys-12-million-traffic-boost-shares-unblocking-tips-120502/</a> <div><br></div>
<div>Streisand effect - ban it and they will come.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div> Brett<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Nicholas Meredith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicholas@udhaonline.net" target="_blank">nicholas@udhaonline.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Hehe yup, but I must give credit where due, it was impressive how quickly the thread subject was updated to reflect that major derailment :)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On May 3, 2012 8:28 AM, "Tony" <<a href="mailto:td_miles@yahoo.com" target="_blank">td_miles@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><span>I clicked on the UKNOF link and started reading the posts. After about 2-3 sensible replies the thread dissolved into the usual war about top/bottom posting.<br>
</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Gotta love it :)</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>regards,</span></div><div><span>Tony.</span></div><div><span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Martin Hepworth
<<a href="mailto:maxsec@gmail.com" target="_blank">maxsec@gmail.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 2 May 2012 10:53 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AusNOG] UK ISP's told to block P2P<br> </font> </div><div><div><br><div>
and the link to the UKNOF thread on all this..<br>
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