If you want money, get a haircut and a real job, hippie.
(I'm just being flippant. I really do think stealing intellectual property is reprehensible).
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
IP needs to be protected otherwise the economic incentive for the business becomes destroyed.
Make something worth something and people will buy it. It isn't taxpayers' fault that a particular industry's product isn't worth what a given industry says it is.
Ever hear of live shows?
Who other than the government do you look to to prevent stealing?
He described the loss of the recent court case against BitTorrent website Oink as "a terrible disappointment" and an indication that current laws in the UK are "out of touch with where life is".He expressed support for the bill's controversial clause 17, which would give the Secretary of State power to make changes to copyright laws.
"I hope they won't throw clause 17 overboard," he said. "We want this to be futureproof..."
What do we need legislators for? We have Democrats in control of government and can secure Big Media's monopoly on recorded audio/visual history since the beginning of the 20th century. "screw fair use" and "public domain" or hundreds of years of legal precedence and constitutional intent.
If their worst fears are realized, it would be like professional sports not paying people much money to play baseball and football.
Gosh. Oh the humanity!
I think those people would crush the independent bands in a second if they got a dollar more to do it.
This is because global stars such as Lady Gaga, who topped the digital download chart of 2009 with 9.8m downloads for her single Poker Face, are regarded as more secure investments.
What investment? A garage band or a local touring band can create a CD pretty cheaply and there are places like CD Baby which will sell it and digital downloads even if you can't get onto iTunes for some reason. So producing and distributing a song doesn't take much investment. The only investment I can think of is in publicity, and that (in an ideal world) would be fore bands with quality music, not just the latest mass produced band which the idustry seems to like.
A few obvious axioms. The first is that people want music they have heard and liked. They don’t buy music of artists they’ve never heard of, and music they don’t know at all.
This is why Music Television was hugely successful. People still remember dozens of the artists (and just performers) they were introduced to in the 1980s. But when Music Television died and was replaced with whatever it is that MTV broadcasts today, the public familiarity with new artists dropped off to just two or three a year, if that.
The reason for this was that the music industry just couldn’t bear the idea of somebody, anybody, making money off of “their” product. As far as they were concerned, once a “contract for hire” artist wrote, performed, and paid for everything else up front, then ALL profits should go to the label, with none for anyone else, including royalties to the artist.
They are too greedy to even understand the concept of advertisement. That by advertising “their” product, they will sell more of it. So they demanded sky high royalties from Music Television, which refused to pay. People should pay them for the privilege of advertising “their” music. How stupid is that?
So why not dispatch the labels entirely, and sell music from a web site? A lot of bands do this, but it’s mostly just for their band.
But this is where P2P comes in. A simple search for an idea, not a particular artist, will give any number of suggestions. Then a downloader can pull down a track of music and listen to it. If they like what they hear, often they end up buying that artists album. If they don’t, then they pitch it.
In a single afternoon, they can explore a dozen new artists and even genres, finding what they like, so they have an idea what to try as new music in the future.
They have expanded their knowledge base. When you ask them who their favorite artist is, they no longer blurt out a name, but have to say that they like several.
And these are people who buy a lot of music.
If you want money, get a haircut and a real job, hippie.
(I'm just being flippant. I really do think stealing intellectual property is reprehensible).