One of the main issues on this site, but also on other publications on the internet is music piracy. Also USAtoday.com has written an article about it.
In this article the author speaks with an artist called Marc Anthony Thompson, known as Chocolate Genius. He was one of the first to find out his CD's were copy protected, and it doesn't satisfy him at all:
Does Thompson thank them for protecting his copyrights? Not a chance. "I don't know that there was one time '” and I loved and used Napster daily '” that a download ever stopped me from buying something. The labels are always going to be able to make a superior product, and if not, then that's what they need to work on." |
He continues: "Most of the folks worried about piracy are too old to get it. You can't apply lame capitalist tools to the way that information and entertainment are going to be shared tomorrow. You'll get left behind like a bad haircut."
Chocolate Genius wants to follow the Grateful Dead business model: Let fans tape concerts, swap songs and make bootleg albums. "It increases their loyalty and fervor," Thompson says. Do it as well as the Dead, and a band can keep selling out arenas until its members are so old, they need walkers to get on stage.
Surveys show Thompson might be right. Research firm Ipsos-Reid reports that 81% of music downloaders keep buying the same amount of CDs, or increase their purchases. Almost half said they bought a CD because of something they first found on the Net.
Well this is something we like to read ! Check out the entire article here.
Can we consider this as the proof that it's just the record industry who are greedy bastards and not the artists ? I would love to hear Britneys' opinion about music piracy
Source: USAtoday.com
