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Originally Posted by Sumeragi
That's not the point. The main point is that in general the three major markets in East Asia all have the same characteristics in that they like having a physical record, be it floppy, CD, DVD, Blue-Ray. Digital alternatives are in fact not true alternatives in the long-run with the physical bias. The technology might change (optical disks being replaced by the next storage method), but the physical shall remain, and that will be a, if not the, major source of payback.
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For the time being, anyway. But will that always be the case? I think demand for digital downloads will eventually reach a point where physical media are no longer profitable, because people refuse to buy them. And the industry had better have some alternatives standing by, if it wants to survive. The lack of interest from the [music and movie] industry to do so is why they keep pushing for laws like these. It's as if they believe that everything will turn out all right if they just eliminate the alternatives, despite evidence pointing to the opposite.