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Audio Piracy and You

Today I’m going to rant about music piracy. The music industry is an ever changing market that buckles to the whims of technology. In the beginning groups would simply tour around and perform. Then the radio became common and bands would do live broadcasts. Later on radio stations could record the artists on a record and the ban could be played daily. later on mass production of records was possible, then one day the cassette tape came about. The music industry was worried that people would record all the songs off the radio, or duplicate bought tapes. when CD’s came out they were worried they’d lose to much money from people burning off their own, then the MP3 player came around. OH no people are going to copy from one another. with today’s high speed internet connection a person can download what took an artist 4 months to produce in less than 20 minutes. Is this right? Is this OK? I am of the opinion that yes these artists should be making money off their hard work, yes if I like your album I should support them, but they are artists. Things always have a way of circling back around to the way they began. Artist need to understand that piracy is going to be virulent forever. The amount of fail-safes that would have to be put in place to stop it would just cause their fan-base to dwindle. In the near future the main source of income will be merchandise and live concerts. The fact of it is you will never be able to stop piracy, people will find the means and the method to share music, programs, movies whatever they want. It’s called escalation, when one side gets the upper hand the other side always manages to find another way. Accept it and go with the times.

There are several artist who agree with me on this stance Jack Johnson is one I can recall right at the moment. There are also several movements on the internet who support a share and share alike methodology. They don’t just say they think it should be that way and hoard their own information, they put a large amount of time into making their own audio to put out for free online. Here are a couple videos from these kind of groups.

Sharing is Caring – Pro Piracy Commercial

and this one is about film piracy

I wouldn’t steal… but i do download films

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