Facebook Comments Subsonix Said...
What a bunch of ***** - pardon my french.
Comparing the internet sharing to home taping shows how much they just don't understand.
Sure, in the 80's one person might by a copy and share it with a couple of mates - but now one person posts up a copy and the whole world has free access. Hardly the same.
We're not all pop stars earning millions either. So why they keep banging on about them I have no idea.
Filesharing is hitting the smaller artists harder, and electronic musicians even more so, as they generally don't play live performances.
Making a joke of these issues shows how little regard they have for musicians.
The ISP's are more worried about losing customers, who no longer need 50MB download speeds when there aren't thousands of tracks to download at once...
17-Mar-10 01:32 PM
S Said...
you'll have to excuse some of my spelling in there, but stories like that make me mad and my fingers couldn't get that down fast enough.
talk, talk? I'd like to punch, punch the guy that runs that company.
17-Mar-10 01:37 PM
Neutron Said...
I Agree in all Points, you`re right !!!!
17-Mar-10 03:10 PM
Radiophobic Said...
The old "get a loan from a label, record in a studio, sell records, make less than a dollar on every record sold after label is paid off, make even less than that after managers and equipment are paid for" kind of business model is what is dying.
MP3 trading has been around for over a decade now, and there are still plenty of artists making a living off of music. Stop living off of fear. Start taking advantage of arguably the most important thing to happen to music since it became mass distributable.
17-Mar-10 05:47 PM
Gimpface Said...
Piracy is the way to go! It has revolutionised the media industry, as well as the internet. Big artists would not last a month without it. This should be seen as a wake up call for the musik industry to reconsider its pricing, rather than a big political debate by desperate blood-sucking lawyers.
17-Mar-10 06:16 PM
Bilal akhmad abdulla qafil Said...
My muslim brothers will rise once again to conquer the west, and free the musik industry from its shackles
17-Mar-10 06:19 PM
Bilal Said...
Allah akbar!
17-Mar-10 06:21 PM
Guitar Chic Said...
And I guess the 'sisters' just stay at home and make the 'brothers' pie then?
:oP
17-Mar-10 09:46 PM
Radiophobic Said...
Darwinian economics. If you think album sales are the only way to make money off of music, then you are going to have a very difficult future.
18-Mar-10 03:24 AM
Subsonix Said...
I've never released an album and I make electronic music that I can't perform live.
I've been releasing music long enough to know the in's and out's of the business and I am a realist.
I know you can't stop all filesharing, but my main point is that the ISP's etc seem to me making some kind of joke out of something that isn't funny.
19-Mar-10 07:36 AM
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