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Behind the music: What if the culture industry shut down for a day?
Wikipedia went black in protest against anti-piracy legislation. But which would you miss more: an encyclopaedia or music?
It made me wonder what would happen if all the content-creation industries blocked access to all their products for a day to demonstrate what would happen
if they couldn't make any money from their work owing to rogue sites. There'd be no music, no television, no film, no books, no radio. What would you miss
the most culture or Wikipedia?
And for those of you claiming people would make music even if they didn't make any money from it, let's say we'd only suspend music made by professionals
and that created thanks to investment by a company hoping to make its money back (that includes major and indie labels). The only music available would
be music made by hobbyists. Would you miss Wikipedia more than you'd miss music released by record labels?
More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/jan/19/behind-music-anti-piracy-legislation