Kicking People Off The Internet Will Encourage Musical Diversity?
Found on Techdirt on Wednesday, 15 April 2009
After the surprising rejection of Nicholas Sarkozy's "three strikes" law in France to kick file sharers off the internet, Sarkozy and the bill's supporters have decided to bring the law back for another vote on April 29th.
What does kicking people off the internet have to do with creative diversity?
You don't force people to buy a product they don't want to pay for.
Those people will be greatly annoyed at those who supported the law and the industry. This isn't really turning them magically into paying customers somehow. It's more realitic to assume that they will never ever pay for music and movies again and influence their friends to join them in their decision.