 Kelarch
join:2001-12-23
Lawrenceville, GA | Puhlees! quote:
To illustrate how easy it is to steal music, Grammy officials hired three computer-savvy students to test how many songs they could download from illegal file-sharing Web sites. In two days, the students grabbed nearly 6,000 songs, Greene said.
Somebody remind Mr. Greene that not everybody has a T1 in their home. 6000 songs in two days amoung three studens, assuming that all the songs where about 3-5 Megabytes, that's 3000-5000 Megs PER DAY, PER STUDENT. A total of 18000-30000 Megs for all the songs. If I downloaded 3000-5000 megs a day, my ISP would be rightously pissed at me for sucking up all that bandwidth.
I know it's just a demonstration on how easy it is, but it's spun out of proportion. He's trying to make people believe that it's that easy for ANYONE to download songs like that. But John Q. MP3Trader doesn't have a snowballs chance in Hell of downloading songs at that rate.
He's trying to say, "Piracy is out of hand! These three students downloaded 6000 songs in two days! We could have made thousands on CD sales on what they downloaded!"
... Deja Vu.... have I posted this before?
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