"Tim Martin" wrote in message
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"Iain M Churches" wrote in message
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Sorry, but whichever way to care to look at it, piracy/counterfeiting ,
be
it of a book,a painting or a recording, is theft.

What I find odd is the way the BBC seems to be promoting Itunes and other
similarly-priced download services, without mentioning the cheaper legal
services. When Itunes started up, the BBC reported it as the first
legally-available music download service for people in the UK; but I'd
been
using emusic.com for years.

Emusic.com charges 10 dollars a month, for which you can download 40
tracks,
so it's a fraction of the price of Itunes etc.



Expect the BBC to become a lot more 'revenue aware' in the coming decade -
they need to pay for all these reporters and film crews that have to travel
all over the place so that they can stand outside some Magistrates Court
just to tell you some utter nonentity got fined for ****ing on his
neighbour's lawn....