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General discussion (archive)WTF? 75% of downloads in UK are "illegal"?! O_o(13 posts)(13 posts)
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Posted December 16, 2010
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2273978/bpi-piracy-music-downloads-p2p

and lo, he touts the Digital Economy Act 2010 as the only solution!

:facepalm:

"could be at risk"
"might be at risk"

the guy's an idiot who couldn't find his arse with both hands.
Also lol-worthy :
"Despite the continued use of illegal music networks, digital music sales are also thriving in the UK. BPI estimates that some 500,000,000 digital singles have been sold in the UK to date, comprising as much as 99 per cent of single sales and 19.6 per cent of full album sales."
but there were around another 1.5billion downloads that weren't legal? I smell something here....
Posted December 16, 2010
Support for an act that places the law in the hands of corporations and furthermore acts on a guilty until proven innocent basis guarantees that the only thing they'll get from me is contempt.
Posted December 16, 2010
"If we falter and lack the courage to act, we risk creating a serious cultural deficit in the UK," Taylor wrote.

"The voices of a generation of new bands and artists simply won't get signed and won't be heard. We will have abandoned values that matter."
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Damuna: As we all know, every band wants to be signed by and be assimilated by a music megacorp who has no interest in their music besides its potential for making money, and nobody could ever make money by offering their music freely, but still producing merchandise and selling concert tickets. That's completely absurd.

I wonder if the music industry realises that its own resistance to adapting to the realities of the Internet is what is killing it.
That'd be far too easy. lol
Posted December 16, 2010
"The voices of a generation of new bands and artists simply won't get signed and won't be heard. We will have abandoned values that matter."
Honestly? Bull. (I can think of a few bands off the top of my head that got noticed thanks to the internet e.g. Crystal Castles. deadmau5) Not to mention the thousands of indie bands that get by with gigging and merch.
Posted December 16, 2010
It's the old "Home Taping is Killing Music!" thing all over again. Besides, you can't kill music. People will always make music and because of the internet there simply isn't a need for the big labels any more. Just because at one time vast amounts of money were required to actually record and distribute an album doesn't mean that's still the case in 2010. I hope they all fail to keep up with the times and die. Music will be healthier without those parasites.
Post edited December 16, 2010 by eyeball226
Posted December 16, 2010
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Lone3wolf: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2273978/bpi-piracy-music-downloads-p2p

and lo, he touts the Digital Economy Act 2010 as the only solution!

:facepalm:

"could be at risk"
"might be at risk"

the guy's an idiot who couldn't find his arse with both hands.
Also lol-worthy :
"Despite the continued use of illegal music networks, digital music sales are also thriving in the UK. BPI estimates that some 500,000,000 digital singles have been sold in the UK to date, comprising as much as 99 per cent of single sales and 19.6 per cent of full album sales."
but there were around another 1.5billion downloads that weren't legal? I smell something here....
There is no music business, home taping killed it back in the 80s. Someone here said that once (I think it was here), I'm running with it.
Posted December 17, 2010
Yep, and every fucking digital download is a lost sale. So true, really. And pigs DO fly, so just move on or you'll get their shit on your head. Just leave the assholes of the industry at their place, eventually they will enjoy shit-raining as they deserve it....
Posted December 17, 2010
If that were the statistics for Spain I would say... Only that?
Posted December 17, 2010
The day in which I can buy a digital copy of the complete Iron Maiden Discography for like 40-50 quid (thats not being on sale btw) is when I actually will begin to take the Music Industry serously.

Till then, I will only buy the occasional album here and there, (I mean REAAALLLY occasionally, like 4 or so albums in a year).
Posted December 17, 2010
Music without big producers as the middle man can't work.

http://www.pledgemusic.com/
Posted December 17, 2010
The internet is a wild west and whether we agree with it or not companies and governments are going to continue to try and tame it, because companies and governments don't like it when they don't have control.
Posted December 17, 2010
It´s sad that one of the first civil rights obtained on western societies, privacy of personal comunications, it´s at this time in danger.
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