Bit Torrent is Baaad

Over at the BBC there's a bit of copyright propaganda.

My favourite bit is:

Researchers found 1.3m people using one file-sharing network on one weekday and estimated that over a year they had free access to material worth £12bn.

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Surely market values dictates the worth of something. Also, if I walk into Tesco I have free access to however much I can fill my pockets with. It is a *choice* to pay. Clearly people abuse copyright, but when so much stuff forcefed us by record labels and Hollywood studios is shit, why should we pay? Presumably, if anything's really worth it, we'll iTunes it or go to the shops.

Or maybe the BBC is worried about DVD sales, as well it should be when it invests in the likes of My Family, one of the dullest sitcoms ever to grace British screens.