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Music Doesn't Feature In the Pirate Bay's Top 100 Biggest Torrents

Posted by samzenpus on from the just-films dept.

journovampire writes Good news for the industry's anti-piracy efforts? Or rather embarrassing for music's appeal in the big, wide world? No single music release features in the Top 100 most-torrented files. From the article: "MBW has analysed TPB’s Top 100 most-pirated files in the 48 hours since its re-emergence. And although you’ll find plenty of movies and a smattering of porn in there, you won’t see a single music release. The Top 4 most-pirated files over the weekend were all movies, led by new Jason Statham vehicle Wild Card. It was followed by three more Hollywood releases – The Interview, American Sniper and Nightcrawler."

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  1. More proof by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Current music sucks so bad Pirates don't even want it.

    1. Re:More proof by aitikin · · Score: 5, Informative

      Rather odd we're even worried about piracy anyway when likely every single one of the top 100 songs is also posted on YouTube, in full streaming HD audio and video.

      You clearly do not know what HD audio is, YouTube doesn't even qualify as decent audio. Very good explanation from an audio engineer (ironically, found on youtube) is right here

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  2. Maybe it's because the music industry has adapted? by SirAnodos · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Could it be the music industry has adapted enough that the average joe doesn't feel the need to pirate music as much as other media?
    Yes, the adaptation certainly isn't ideal, but most of my friends now pay $9 a month (or so) and stream all their music and stream most new music. They are letting their personal music libraries slowly bit rot away as they increasingly rely on the cloud and streaming services.
    Plus most digital albums can be bought without DRM these days.
    But movies are a different story. You have to wait before you can even watch a movie in your own home, and movie media is always DRMed.

  3. Of course by penguinoid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does music cost $20 a song and come with a 5 minute unskippable warning against piracy, and 10 minutes of unskippable trailers for other songs? But for some products if you want quality you have to pirate it. I know some people who will buy a movie to be legit/support the industry, and then pirate it because it is less trouble than the CD.

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  4. Holy false dichotomy batman! by serviscope_minor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or how about the following three factors:

    1. I can buy the tracks I want for a sensible price with no DRM, so I can listen to it how and when I want.
    2. Lots of streaming services if I don't want to buy.
    3. An almost fanatical devotion to the pope.

    Basically street years of getting brutalized by pirates, the music industry wised up and started selling people what they wanted to buy rather than treating people like criminals to be milked for as much cash as possible.

    Oh that and YouTube.

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