Love thy fans

The relatively recent spate of DRM legislation and the increasing threat of finding yourself disconnected from the Internet if you so much as download a single MP3 are based on the 'assumption that the licensed activity and the unlicensed activity are separable, that you can punish the latter without hurting the former.'
But, asks Tom Ewing on the Guardian's Music Blog, 'what if that's not true – what if, as several studies of piracy and music purchasing seem to suggest, the good fans and the bad fans are the same people?'

Although the article was published on 1 April, there might well be some truth in it.

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