On the last week of June (June 29th-July 3rd) every person who ‘pirates’ music should not buy any music what so ever. Hold off on all purchases or buy before hand. Just to show the purchasing power of those who download music.

Every one should share this idea and plaster it on every torrent site.

but…

I’m also an independent recording artist and an ASCAP member and (though it isn’t much) I DEPEND on the income from my quarterly ASCAP checks (in addition to the day job I can’t wait to quit).

My art utilizes machinery which constantly needs to be maintained, serviced or upgraded. It also requires electricity and a rented studio space in addition to numerous other things, none of which are free, most of which are quite expensive.

I have never made anywhere near enough to be able to sustain my craft with just shows, merch table sales and snocap. Forget about recording other bands, they’re always broke. I have also never met anyone who’s said: ” hey, great album! here’s the several thousand dollars you’ll need to make the next one.” or ” here, let me repair that console for free”.

It’s been years and I’m STILL waiting for someone to show me a “new model” where I can continue to make the music my fans want to consume. Not idealism, not speculation, but HARD DATA. I want to see figures.

anyone? hello?

thought so.

http://www.tech3d.net

I always end up with an argument with folk who ask me this question.SIMPLE ANSWER

AVAILABILITY
AVAILABILITY
AVAILABILITY

I was in college when my fave CD used to come out worldwide and we ran to our stores to find out that people didn’t even know who we were talking about.RIAA if your distribution network doesnt reach us in other countries.HOW THe F**K do u NOT EXPECT PIRACY.

PIRACY : The unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material.

Thats how the dictionary defines IT.
HOW DO U EXPECT FANS WHO ARE HUNGRY TO WATCH THE LATEST MOVIES not to get an unauthorized version of it.

F**K MAN!!! these OLD f**ks who are at the RIAA/MOvieBOSSES dont have a clue how good technology is these days in distributing content.

GIVE ME A MOVIE’s NAME…I will get to in NO TIME.(and for anyone anywhere in the world)

GIVE me AN ALBULMS NAME….I will get in seconds (and for anyone anywhere in the WORLD)

GIVE ME A SOFTWARE…I’ll get for anywhere anytime and IT WILL FREAKING WORK….

When you learn how to do that without having me pay an exhoberent TAX or SHIPPING FEE or SUBSCRIPTION
I WILL PAY FOR YOUR SH*T….GET THAT ITS THAT F**KING SIMPLE YOU FAT-I-WANT-ALL-THE-MONEY-IN-MY-POCKETS F*GS..

Another THING…you biatches are doing well in spite of the recession…..YOUR BEST YEAR…And you know why ur BREAKING every FREAKING RECORD on the planet..
CAUse its people LIKE US who spread teh buzz about GREAT content

PIRACY HAS Created a Legion of fans in places where none of UR F***KING ARTISTS WIlll be able to FREAJING NAME

I assume you use something along the lines of Eraser to delete all these files? If not, its trivial to recover temp files, internet history (which is stored regardless of your settings in index.dat) etc.

The safest way of protecting your computer from unauthorised access (such as if the police took it) is to encrypt your hard disk. Have a look at TrueCrypt.

For cleaning of your files have a look at CCleaner – It can even wipe your tracks to DoD standards!

I’ve been downloading music since early Napster days. I have kept track of how much music I downloaded (way to much to actually listen to, mostly to sample) and How many CDs I have bought. My numbers are about 5,000 songs (DL) and 300-400 CDs purchased. Yes, I have listened to all the CDS. What is everyone elses numbers?

to sum it all up: file-sharing is fine, and those that think it’s not need to get a clue. if you haven’t cleaned out your temporary files directory, then you NEED to do it, and the same thing goes for your recent documents folder. oh yeah, don’t leave your torrent client open for weeks on end without closing it down, just because you want to seed a file. that alone could be the real reason why some people have gotten busted. USE YOUR BRAINS.

the greatest threat against [a content creator] is not piracy, but obscurity.

The digital era didn’t just bring more piracy, it brought more artists and more releases.

In the 1980s, the possibility of printing your own CD was very costly. Now I can print up a run of 1000 discs for £1200.

There is so much music now, battling for attention, that things are either going to continue in the same sorry state, or things are going to evolve (or crash and burn then rebuild).

The major labels have been greedy for far too long – there isn’t a single book publisher out there that would take the copyright of an authors work, would do the labels?

I hate piracy, I’m a musician and I hate the thought of someone taking my hard work and releasing it without my permission. But I know it’s going to happen.

So I roll with it. Put it online myself, try to spread it as far and wide as I can. If a hundred people download it and one buys it, that is a success – not a great success, but a success. A building block on which to continue.

The industry needs a nobody to rise up through online, to show that it can be done. Then things will start to change.

Wealth is a long term strategy I guess.

http://chantelletibbsmusic.com

Go ahead, steal it;)

And then, studies came out that showed that people who did precisely that, were the biggest consumers of music. Same thing w/CD-R’s (which they also said would kill the industry).

Dumb. Listen, as a retail music employee of 20 yrs (when they still had shops – and i don’t mean 1 or 2 ) i could have saved them a whole bunch of money and time – we buy more, because we CARE more. We DL more because we LOOOOOOVE music more than anything!

What ‘killed’ the industry (read: diminished profits) wasn’t tape, CD-R’s, the internet OR iPods!

What killed them is their own stupid actions – & i don’t mean JUST fighting filesharing – shee-it. You would not believe the stories…coked-out AR reps, promo-flushing, incredibly F*d up accting procedures, selling out to the CORP suits (loss leader product pricing anyone? Best Buy, I’m looking at you).

And now, the cat is FIRMLY out of the bag – DRM? please. Anything can be hacked/broken/ripped.

Like many co.s, they will forevermore never recognize the landscape until they remove their blinders – but by then, it will be too late.

Art waits for no man.

When joe blow can create – mix – produce – distribute music on his $500 crap laptop.. what do the labels have to do? NOTHING. That was there main job.. they were the first to have the full blown studios, so expensive no one could afford it.

The other job they had was distribution… getting it from point A to B by physical media. The internet wiped that shit out in a heartbeat..

The labels have nothing left to do BUT fight.. every penny they invest in keeping them alive is all worth spending from a financial point of view.. there just IS NOT enough room on the internet for all those assholes who are used to making X amount of money doing shit the world is going to forget about..

PEOPLE WILL LOOSE JOBS.. YES.. I believe this will happen, but NEW jobs will open up by the thousands.. they just wont be the same! Its the side effect of natural business evolution.. everything will sooner or later evolve.

Lets face it, in today’s world college education is no longer sustaining people for the rest of there lives.. right now im an IT guy that makes a living off of Microsoft absolute crap OS. One day in my life someone will wipe out Microsoft and I WILL HAVE TO FIGURE SOMETHING OUT OR DIE. These fucking loser label people grew up thinking they could retire from this industry they created.. they were wrong.

The people who delivered ice had to learn how to work on ICE MAKERS.

The people who took care of horses had to learn how to fix vehicles.

The people who did office work all on paper had to learn how to use a computer.

The people who used to be telephone operators had to learn how to work on advanced telecoms systems.

Stop crying, stop whining. You have 2 choices.

1.Evolve
2.Die

Obviously the music industry wants me to purchase all 50 CDs because they get paid whether I like the music or not. Their model has absolutely nothing to do with the satisfaction of the customer and everything to do with financing the share holder’s excessive lifestyle.

Three cheers for the internet, p2p, and torrent technology which those greedy labels are trying to kill.

I started out downloading my music for free, the bottom line is I now buy a lot of music because I can’t get enough for free. Or, I want it in higher quality or just want to support the artist!

Even the goody two shoes people who have paid for “all” their music could be caught in copyright violations. They come out with new rules all the time. No one is 100% legal anymore.

if it’s not worth buying, then don’t download it either.

If you notice, the artists that are getting pissed about people downloading their albums have valuable music (IE: people ARE willing to pay for it, but decide to download it instead).

Independent artists/less popular artists don’t care as much because they don’t have any money for marketing and it does help spread the word.

While I was there my life basically consisted of going to school, going to Wal-Mart, going to Chapters, and sitting at home on my computer for hours and hours. I discovered the JPop group “Hello! Project” during those long hours and quickly became a big fan.

I returned to Toronto last May and managed to locate an import shop that carries H!P CDs,DVDs, posters, and even calanders. I have spent probably $900-$1000 on H!P things in the last year. I’d say that’s a lot…perhaps too much…to spend on music in a year. I have no intention of slowing down my H!P spending either. Before that I never really bought music…I had 3 Godzilla CDs and that was it.

So to sum it up nice and short: thanks to filesharing music online I have now spent $900-$1000 on music in just year. Thankfully Zetima is not a member of the RIAA or I would feel guilty about doing that.

It is not illegal here in Switzerland :)