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24 Oct 08
香港貧富懸殊全亞洲最嚴重 - Yahoo! 新聞
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在發展中地區，亞洲城市的平等程度最高，其平均基尼系數為0.39。亞洲最不平等的城市是香港，其基尼系數高達0.53。
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拉美城鎮地區的平均基尼系數是0.5，南非和納米比亞的城市基尼系數分別高達0.73和0.62。
28 Oct 07
demonbaby: When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.
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' ... something even better will rise out of Oink's ashes, and the RIAA will
respond with more lawsuits, and the cycle will repeat itself over and
over until the industry has finally bled itself to death. And then
everything will be able to change, and it will be in the hands of
musicians and fans and a new generation of entrepreneurs to decide how
the new record business is going to work. Whether you agree
with it or not, it's fact. It's inevitable - because the determination
of fans to share music is much, much stronger than the determination of
corporations to stop it.' - yamje1 on 2007-10-28
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Already is the key word, because it didn't have to be this way, and that's become the main source of my utter lack of sympathy for the dying record industry: They had a chance to move forward, to evolve with technology and address the changing needs of consumers - and they didn't. Instead, they panicked - they showed their hand as power-hungry dinosaurs, and they started to demonize their own customers, the people whose love of music had given them massive profits for decades.
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he pirating community continues to out-smart and out-innovate the dated methods of the record companies, and CD sales continue to plummet while exchange of digital music on the internet continues to skyrocket. Why? Because freely-available music in large quantities is the new cultural norm, and the industry has given consumers no fair alternative.
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