Comments on: Music Industry Threatens to Bankrupt Pirate Party Members (Updated)

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:50:00 +0000

I hate the music industry so much. Damn scum bags idiots don’t know what the hell their doing. They can’t fight the internet. Are they dumb?

By: Johnny Green

Johnny Green — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:36:00 +0000

USA uses Africa’s recources, Africans starve yet Americans are supersized… Thats the example i follow when it comes to sharing 1′s & 0′s.

By: Johnny Green

Johnny Green — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:25:00 +0000

Sooo if i d/l 39% of it.. does it mean i stole 39% of the song?

( imagine a vinyl in a store.. smashed into bits.. and i collect 39% of the fragments, what sum will the clerk charge me? ) .. stop deluding yourself

By: Alec Mendonça

Alec Mendonça — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:04:00 +0000

Musicians spend money, time and effort to record music. Creating is not costy, but once it gets out of your mind onto the tape it is. Recording is costy, no musician works for free, to get a decent guitar player is costy and to get a good studio to have your album recorded in is even more costy, engineers charge a lot to mix and master your album. If you play the guitar your chords have to be replaced as you record each song and the music stores don’t give away their products out of the beauty of your eyes, they are costy too. Manufacturing albuns so that they can get to a person is very costy, there’s artwork, distribution and marketing involved. Then, after the album reaches a person, this very same person finds himself on the right to distribute it on line for thousands of people and THAT IS illegal, there’s no excuse for that, you’re taking the property of someone else and giving it away to other people. Bare in mind that you’re not buying the songs that were composed and recorded, you’re buying the result of that and that is the CD you purchase for U$ 15,00 at EBAY, for example. If things were like that there would be no inventors, no patents, no Silicon Valley, no Microsoft or IBM or no APPLE, people would sit on their sofas and wait for someone to create something to then steal it. When doctors and lawyers start to work for free, then you can distribute music that is not yours for free too. Musicians need money and the only way to get it is from the sales of the albums, mainly the new acts. Making music is costy to the musicians and everyone else involved, and I, as a musician, can tell you that we do it out of love, because the royalties we’re supposed to earn with our album sales are stolen by people like you guys. And don’t even start with that non sense talk about getting money selling shirts and doing gigs, because everyone with a minnimum inteligence knows that only the big bands make big money with shows, because they are the ones with the infra structure to do so. So before you steal an album by distributing it, sometimes 2, 3 months before its release, think about the excellent musicians that, deprived of their income, will search another thing to do rather than music. And in the end, people who love good music are the ones that will lose.

By: Bruno Dias

Bruno Dias — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:34:00 +0000

So guys, seeing most of the comments, i get the idea that, most of you, are saying that all cultural multimedia products (music records, movies, games, …) get in the same boat, morally and legally. Are you so innocent, to think that? If yes, it’s fun to compare you to the behavior of machines, related to these kind of media: it’s all signal, it’s all the “same”. Do you get the analogy or do i need to write another post explaining it?

About music: of course that one could argue that sharing the music copies, for free, will improve artist career, by getting more people to know them and, as consequence, they get booked for gigs. Well, i agree with that kind of self-promoting BUT, the issue with it, is that it doesn’t work with all genres! For example, trance (the european cluster of styles), being managed by big corporation labels (Armada, Coldharbour, Anjunabeats), don’t allow small artists, who don’t lick corporate asses, to get gigs. And, if their music gets released, for free, absolutely no money enters their pockets. So, the problem here is the small guy not licking the right asses? Or is the music piracy? Or both are issues?

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:56:00 +0000

I pay for the music,the CD becomes MINE once i buy it,i can do whatever i want with it-,break it,throw it,burn it,give away,share it,upload it :)

By: Zoe Munch

Zoe Munch — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:09:28 +0000

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By: Ongbakmuaythaikiller666

Ongbakmuaythaikiller666 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:28:00 +0000

sharing is not stealing and why the fuck would i pay for music just to make some record company rich fuck that make music more readily available n cheaper n i wudnt have to download

By: Kk

Kk — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:25:00 +0000

you know this is torrentfreak.com right?

By: Hues

Hues — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:25:00 +0000

Piracy has no effect on revenue in the real world. “if everyone” is a Kantian categorical imperative that exists in philosophy. Not the real world. Hollywood makes crap loads of money and is progressively more profitable every year. Then they use childish moral comparisons and you drink the kool-aid and pick up a flag for their cause. Yay sheep!