Great article in the Guardian talking critically about the realities of online sharing, and not just of music or movies — pointing out that many industries have had to mold and adapt to live in the digital age:

You know what I say? Damn right. Let’s get ISPs to stop copyright infringement. But, um, music people? Better form an orderly queue. You think you were the first to suffer from your content getting ripped off and spread to the four corners of the earth? Get to the back of the line, bud. There’s a few people ahead of you.

A little further down the article, as the journalist is making his point, comes this great snippet:

You want me to carry on? There’s needlepoint, which in 2000 was revealed to be reeling from an assault by grandmothers and others sending each other needlepoint patterns via email. Oh, the humanity! And of course there are games companies like Nintendo, which had to suffer people swapping their consoles’ ROMs over the net. You can imagine how damaged Nintendo was by that. It’s never been the same. It crawled away to sob in a hole and close up shop - am I right?

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