just use it :)

You are obviously out of touch with the modern world. I am a musician, and I give my music away for free. My music is too strange for a record company to take a risk, but thanks to the internet, I get more exposure. I am able to play live shows and I get payed well for them. If it weren’t for torrent sites, which I use to distribute my music, me and other experimental artists would not be heard by most people. Reduced choice of music? Bullshit. If we reduce the barriers to obtaining music, people will discover music they would not usually listen to. Increased piracy can only make music better. It’s when record companies dominate the media and dictate radio playlists with tired tracks from mainstream artists that music suffers.

Canada is currently the sixth largest market for the sale of legitimately produced sound recordings in the world. In 2003, the total retail value of all legitimate sound recording sales exceeded $940 million CDN. Based on industry statistics and international comparisons CRIA estimates that sales of pirated sound recordings drains an additional $23.5 million CDN from the legitimate Canadian market.

The loss to the industry, however, is measured in more than the monetary terms. Lost sales for record companies result in lower revenue and consequently lower investment in new Canadian recording artists and music. It is estimated in the recording industry that only 1 in 10 new releases actually generates revenue. It is the revenue from this small portion of new releases that allows for investment in new talent.

Sales of pirated sound recordings contribute nothing to Canada’s cultural industries. Manufacturers and distributors of pirate recordings focus only on commercially successful recordings. The manufacturers and distributors of pirate recordings do not develop talent or pay royalties to performers and composers. Often sales taxes are not paid by the vendors or the distributors of pirate recordings. Consumers will ultimately be the victims of piracy as the lost sales translate to less investment, fewer new artists and reduced choice of music.

HAIL HYDRA!

Thank you again CRIAA for another “editorial suggestion” where to consume your crappy product without it having interrupted with commercials for even crappier products or ahving the fade in and out of a song ruined by ultra crappy Radiostation personel!

One suggestion though, next time can’t you make your editorial recommendations without wasting so many taxpayers dollars as collateral damage jsut to get the word out.
When you just release some simple pdf file that tells the public the URL of the place where it should go that would be much cheaper then staging big legal procedings where taxpayers must pay court personel and all that just that you can advertise the places.

Look at MPAA: They know how to do it!
Just some simple press release about how happy they are about a shipwreck and everyone knew where he needed to go. Even though the got the URL wrong in their pdf! :-P

All your music are belongs to us?

so many quotes….

We understand completely, thanks for all you’ve done and even more thanks for allowing others to continue that on :)