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Yesterday I talked with a friend about music on gramophones (I had thought that they are used only by DJs).
– Vinyls are the best media for music in the World! Because the sound is cleanest!
– Ehm. There is a common opinion in Lithuania that they are absolute leftovers from the times of grandmothers, when old-school pop music ruled.
– Come on! You shouldn’t mistake vinyls with plastic records which were used in the past. They look similar, but the quality of vinyls is much better, because it’s made from different material.
– Really?.. Ehmm.. I’m thinking for what reason they are not so popular in Lithuania then. Perhaps that’s because of the price and the possibilities to pirate. Formerly tapes used to be popular, because one could copy them, whereas you couldn’t copy CDs. Then CD burners came into massive production and CDs got popular. But vinyls are probably too expensive for Lithuanians.

Actually without piracy, many poor countries culturally would have been much farther behind. If not the illegal record sellers in marketplaces, I would have probably never gotten interested in game development. The theme of piracy is also mentioned in the animated movie “Persepolis” which I recommend you to watch (I see someone already tempted, finding the animation in Torrents, and starting downloading it).

Various copyright associations fight against piracy. But sometimes they do such nonsenses that it seems better to leave this problem unsolved and think more about the quality of the content rather than about its protection. Recently Lithuanian copyright protection association sued a magazine for publishing a photo with a sculpture in the background without the sculptor’s permission. See the crappy translation of the article).

But how should the developers survive then? They should simply think about new business models once again.