Lolwut?!

Canadian content rules apply to broadcast mediums, there aren't any restrictions online. Those restrictions are entirely the producer/distributor. That being said the Canadian content rules are still horrible.

 

Ain't region encoding fun?

Uh... you do know that from about 5 minutes after region coding was invented, just about every DVD player (with the possible exception of Sony ones for which there was a hardware mod) came with an easily findable handset code to change regions, don't you? Region coding is irrelevant and always has been.

 

It also is largely related to the fact that college kids are meeting new people and hearing about awesome new music but are completely broke. So they get music the only way they can, for free.

This is not new to the internet though, my mom still has the boxes of cassette tapes my brother brought home from college in the basement. Two decently large boxes of mix tapes and copies. They sit next to my milk crates full of burned cds. My little brother's music is not down there taking up space though its all on his HDD.

But college kids grow up and get jobs and then buy things because they finally have both money and beer. My brother buys a small fortune in blue rays and cds every year. Most of my non-essential money goes to video games.

 

He said, his boss said that a costumer said != fact

 

All that happens is the money remains unspent

Correction, The money is spent elsewhere boosting a different area of the economy.

 

but the artificial scarcity I use to increase profits doesn't work like it used to before the internet!!!

 

Wow.. That's just sadly on point.

I have dreams you know!

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He ought to know, he wrote it

 

You are giving this guy a hard time because of HIS experience (he worked for the record store jackass), just because you feel guilty about pirating content and causing a record store to close doesn't give you any right to mock him.

Point one: at no point did I disparage the record store owner, as you just have by calling him/her a "jackass."

Point two: Yes. I am calling out anecdotal evidence. Thanks for submitting your personal experience but it doesn't really prove anything.

Point three: Thanks for the piracy accusations and attributed guilt. I'll stack that with the rest of the obnoxious crap that various detractors have laid at my internet doorstep. Maybe someday I'll compile it into a book entitled "Shit My Detractors Say" and make a few bucks before I spin it into a horrendous sitcom that sucks the souls out of unfortunate viewers while simultaneously taking a few years off the end of their lives.

Point four: His anecdote doesn't give me the right to mock him, but it sure makes it easy to do exactly that. When someone enters a heated discussion armed with nothing more than "stuff I overheard", they shouldn't expect anything less.

 

I believe TechDrirt is of the Do'Urden family.

 

Wow, I never realized Somalia was doing so much to try and help the environment.

 

because the people who own it decided its an opportunity to make money or for some tangible logical reason?

 

You mean the "adults" who came here to accuse everyone of pirating Ye Olde Anecdotal Record Shoppe out of existence? Other adults with dissenting opinions are now going to have their advanced years retroactively stripped by your rapier-esque debate skills?

 

No he loves record stores can't you tell, if only piracy hadn't killed them off he could still depend on them for all his music needs.