“In the eyes of many artists and record labels, being heavily pirated is just about the *WORST* thing that could happen.”

Once again sorry for being a tool.

snatches != # of times torrent file was downloaded.

the torrents you stopped midway aren’t counted as snatches.

What a lousy pirate you are. You’ll have to walk the plank!

Dude, i smoked that too, but i dont remember having such dumb thougts, yeah i sometimes tink that a dog is a cat, but thats because there are very tiny cats!

Murder – piracy…
Something is here – doesnt mean is right…

O.o

The sky is blue, therefor i like cookies!

thats all i had to say.

now that her business is failing (because last fm is better) she starts by blaming us! what the hell is up with that.

They can have her back we sure as hell don’t want her.

feminist Extremist ALERT!

Have you seen her Wikipedia page she looks like Medusa

Kerchoonz EPIC FAIL (Guardians To Bad Rubbish)

EPIC FAIL

I think what annoys me most about the whole situation, is the completely unrealistic profit margins your industry believes is acceptable to make on music. You have in effect priced your audience out of the market, and this is why people pirate; for example, I have a 120gb ipod, which will hold between 15 – 20 thousand tracks. if all these were purchased through itunes, i would be carrying round between £10000 – £15000 worth of music without any physical item ever having been received! How can the music industry warrant this? especially when the larger demographic, is the youth and young adult market whose annual salaries will be between £5000 and £22000. I think the music industry have backed themselves in to a corner with their own collective greed.

By updating their business models to reflect this change in music trends, they would have been able to keep up revenue streams, my personal belief is in a pay per play system, by making downloads free, hosting relevant advertising on their sites, and using scrobbling technologies and charging a small royalty per play. similar to prs royalties. People would rather play music legally.

You have to remember that not everyone who listens to music earns enough to purchase music at the price and rate you expect, and therefore turn to piracy.

However i believe you have taken this too far and have alienated a large part of your market and now the best thing for music, as we may now start to see artists that want to make it so much, they are prepared to put the effort into self marketing, and have the quality to succeed. the cost of creating the final product is now negligible as there is no physical media to provide, and the quality of home recording is not far of that of a studio. The recording industry’s failure to adapt and embrace technology was their downfall.

Dan.

What I have discovered from this site and a few others is the illegal p2p users appear a lot more passionate about it than users of legal sites. That is an interesting dynamic to me. I’ve also noticed though that with that passion comes some negativity in the form of venomous attacks. I wonder why that is? Perhaps it’s just the basis of people can hide behind a keyboard or is there more too it than that. That is something I tend to explore.

Thank you everyone for your comments. It has been very interesting thus far. Apologies for straying off-topic.

I only pointed out how incredibly dumb it was to compare it to murder.. there relation is that of earth to Pluto.

The rest of it seems like a poorly thought out rant. TorrentFreak’s writers usually produce much better work than this…someone was drinking.

The music/movie industry needs to adapt its format to the users instead of trying to force the rest of us into compliance.
No way am I paying for an entire album if I can only be bothered to listen to 3 of its tracks (which is very often the case). CD’s are crazy expensive (at least where I live). I gladly pay if I know beforehand that I like a reasonable percentage of an album, and if someone figured out how to sell customizable albums at affordable prices I personally think that more people would be on board.

It’s only a question of time before the whining stops and the progression begins – history has already shown multiple times that the technology that Hollywood is so keen on stopping can be beneficial to both sides if only the industry would stop vicitimizing itself and learn to adapt like everyone else.

I also agree completely with Brian P. A download is not equal to an unbought ticket/DVD/CD. There is no guarantee that a downloader would pay any money for a product if piracy was not an option.