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# LA Times Editorial Calls P2P A “Lost Opportunity”
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/la_times_editor/
- Published: 2006-07-06T04:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2006-07-06T04:50:00.000Z
- Description: "A year after a Supreme Court victory against online piracy, major labels and studios haven’t done enough to lure file sharers." So begins an LA Times editorial. "…free downloaders represent. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2006/07/la_times_editor.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

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"A year after a Supreme Court victory against online piracy, major labels and studios haven’t done enough to lure file sharers." So begins an LA Times editorial.

"…free downloaders represent a lost opportunity for the entertainment industry. The number of legitimate outlets for music, TV shows and movies online may be growing, but file-sharing networks continue to attract a much larger audience. By one estimate, almost 10 million people around the world are using file-sharing networks at any given moment."

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"…The industry needs much more experimentation with approaches that give users the control and freedom to consume that make file-sharing networks so attractive. Instead of hoping that millions of Internet users on file-sharing networks will go somewhere else and pay for their downloads, it’s past time to try to do business with them where they are. "

Read the full LA Time’s piece [here](http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-grokster01jul01,0,7221950.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials&ref=hypebot.com) and Hypebot’s take on the issue [here](http://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/2006/07/one%5Fyear%5Fafter%5F.html?ref=hypebot.com).