“Piracy Is Progress” Billboard on Times Square Divides Artists

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They should just change the billboard to say "I'm for piracy...unless it is my stuff you are stealing." ;)

Piracy is progress, piracy is freedom, piracy is harmless, piracy is inevitable, piracy is robbery, piracy is evil, piracy is selfish, or is it a fad? The statements above are displayed on one of the world’s most prominent billboards in Times Square, New York.
 
Basically how it translates.

"Most musicians aren't good enough, or not what big labels want, as a result we can't get our CD's to sell for 19.99. However due to piracy, we get things like iTunes where all songs are 99 cents, and you don't need big labels to push your music into every store"

So yeah... piracy does work for them. Which is why bands that had labels (like Metallica) didn't like it, because they were selling $20 CDs
 
"The band itself told TorrentFreak that it is ultimately against piracy, but that the problem can only be tackled when consumers have affordable and convenient alternatives."

As far as music goes, how can you get much more affordable than 99 cents for a song, or a $10/month sub to something like Spotify (it's even free if you don't mind ads)?

The problem isn't the price, it's the quality. Labels need to stop shoveling out the same crap and give people something worth paying for. If someone isn't willing to pay $1 for your product, you really have to ask yourself what you're doing wrong.
 
To sell music you have to brand yourself. To brand yourself takes a ton of cash in advertising, and resources. Labels have tons of cash to spend and want to recoup the most on their investment. This is why there are so few songs in rotation on radio stations. There is plenty of good music that you would never have to play the same song twice in a day. Songs should not be 99 cents, more like a quarter. Digital revenues would explode if labels pushed more artists, and sold songs cheaper.

Ultimately the reason so many artists don't care about piracy is because they make their money playing live, of course not many will say that as it pisses off their publishers. Its a pittance what they get from record sales.
 
The newzon pop-ups are a total slap in the face coming from the [H], i thought i would never see the day...
 
ignorance can be bliss

this has nothing to do with so-called "piracy"

People are going to download music....it's what's done now. Wether it's $1 or $20 or free. Downloading is what you do with these devices and machines....they are designed to copy. That has NEVER changed and is NOT likely to. The RIAA has done many things to derail this whole thing but people still do it to a massive degree....and they also pay money for a massive amount of it too.

There are many factors in this argument. Not the least of which is a global economy that is severely hurting. A large amount of music just isn't worth paying for (but that's just one opinion). Although, things that ARE worth paying for are still downloaded. For me, the thing that's ACTUALLY worth paying for are live performances (for the most part). I'll buy the shirts, the signed drum heads, etc. KISS puts on a fantastic show (even now after so many years). This is a group that at this point, ought to be setup for life without any questions asked. Doing what they do takes alot. I shudder to think of all the money that the RIAA has stolen from them over the years.

The only value that 500gigs worth of mp3's have at all is in the personal enjoyment of the person that has it. No one will pay anything for it. Anyone that does is a fool. It's no different from 500gigs of porn.

When more people download one artist...it should be seen as a good thing. It's something of a gauge as to how good they are and how wide spread they are liked. That's how you would tell where to stock the shelves. If all things were equal though.

It's in the way things are done. The RIAA have all too many times of the years proven themselves to fall between complete ass-hats and evil. I honestly don't believe they have any understanding of just what it is they are really doing.
 
No reason to buy music, really. Put your shit out there, pray for some attention and collect money doing live shows.

Last time I bought an album was back in the middle of the 90's.

Not that I go to concerts - I hate them - but I've spent a lot of money on detroit and swedish techno. Buying vinyls or mp3s? No fucking way. CDs are completely out of the question.
 
Last time I bought an album was back in the middle of the 90's.

I just bought 2 Tool albums from the store because apparently they do not allow their stuff to be sold online. I respect that and I did the right thing.

Apple charges $1.29 for most "popular" songs now. And I don't mean just Justin Beiber, every song on Cutting Crews "Broadcast" is $1.29. So is every song on Moody Blues "Days of Future Past". These aren't exactly hot sellers. Helps pave the way for Amazon I guess.
 
I just bought 2 Tool albums from the store because apparently they do not allow their stuff to be sold online. I respect that and I did the right thing.

Apple charges $1.29 for most "popular" songs now. And I don't mean just Justin Beiber, every song on Cutting Crews "Broadcast" is $1.29. So is every song on Moody Blues "Days of Future Past". These aren't exactly hot sellers. Helps pave the way for Amazon I guess.

I just hopped over to Amazon and looked at those same 2 albums and they also charged $1.29 per song. Tough economy I guess.
 
I will gladly pay 99 cents, or $1.29, or even $2.00 for songs as soon as the recording companies are willing to buy back all the crap 'filler' songs they stick on albums and CD's that they have sold me over the years. Seems only fair. But the RIAA doesn't want 'fair'. They want to screw the customer out of as much cash as they can.

Fair warning, I own well over a thousand albums and just as many CD's. So of course they don't want their crappy music back.
 
I will gladly pay 99 cents, or $1.29, or even $2.00 for songs as soon as the recording companies are willing to buy back all the crap 'filler' songs they stick on albums and CD's that they have sold me over the years. Seems only fair. But the RIAA doesn't want 'fair'. They want to screw the customer out of as much cash as they can.

Fair warning, I own well over a thousand albums and just as many CD's. So of course they don't want their crappy music back.

Sir you are mistaken. You mearly paid to acquire the right to listen to said selection of works.
 
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