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More Than One Third of Music Consumers Still Pirate Music (theguardian.com)
More than one-third of global music listeners are still pirating music, according to a new report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). From a report: While the massive rise in legal streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal was thought to have stemmed illegal consumption, 38% of listeners continue to acquire music through illegal means. The most popular form of copyright infringement is stream-ripping (32%): using easily available software to record the audio from sites like YouTube at a low-quality bit rate. Downloads through "cyberlocker" file hosting services or P2P software like BitTorrent came second (23%), with acquisition via search engines in third place (17%).
Because it is extremely beneficial for them to put the situation in such a way , so it is easier to introduce new taxes, new draconian measures to restrict the rights to backup copies, to limit the ways of reproduction and etc.
Their greed has no limits
only 1/3 of music consumers still pirate music. Also, no $h!t Sherlock. Broke kids are always going to pirate. Let them. It gets them in the habit of listening to music when they're young. Without piracy they're going to grow up without it and not care when they're old enough to pay. That's how Metallica got their start; pirated mix tapes. Without them they'd be working at 7-11.
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Of course we do.
I pay $10/month for a service, and side-load what's unavailable.
Some of the side-loaded stuff isn't available anyway.
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Or new music is crap and I already ripped/pirated everything I'll ever want to listen to decades ago.
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I generally don't bother to pirate most media anymore. I'm perfectly fine with paying for it, especially if I get a DRM-free digital copy or I get access to a streaming service that doesn't include any commercials. If you make it easy for consumers to pay for what they want (i.e. don't insist on bundling content with things I don't want) most people are more than willing to pay.
As you get older, your time becomes more valuable and you have a higher income. Paying $5 on Amazon or Apple, or $10 a month for Netflix is ultimately less expensive than trying to a functional pirated stream somewhere else online or dredging through seedy websites to find warez that isn't a malware-infested mess.
Or new music is crap and I already ripped/pirated everything I'll ever want to listen to decades ago.
There is great music still being made. I find new good stuff all the time, it just takes some work. IMO, the de-valuation of recorded music due to piracy and streaming has forced bands to make money the old fashioned way ... live performances. There are some really talented musicians out there honing their craft and putting on great shows while cranking out great recordings.
Please take a moment to read this old article: "The plaintiffs (musicians) claimed compensation for use of work listed on what are known in the Canadian recording industry as pending lists. These lists, accumulated over many years, contain works for which no licence was obtained and no compensation paid........ the action could have been worth up to $6-billion."
In other words the music industry owed 6 billion dollars to musicians for non-payment of songs they used w/o compensation. - LINK https://business.financialpost... And the followup: The record industry only paid 50 million of the 6000 million owed to artists: https://entertainment.slashdot...
- The Music Industry wants to scold us commoners, and yet THEY are far worse at screwing the musicians than we are.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
What kind of fools do they think we are? We've been taping stuff off of the radio since before I was born in the 70s. Now we listen to music through YouTube and "tape" off of that instead. Only in the mind of an IP lawyer is there some kind of moral distinction here. I'll do this until it is technically infeasible to do so, and I'll sleep just fine at night.
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They're not in the least hurting for money but of course they have to have all the money. Then when they have everything so locked-down and monopolized they'll just raise the prices on everything, or worse: they'll try to convince everyone that paying every month forever for 'streaming' is somehow better. Yeah well fuck them no wonder people still pirate music.
> but still plug their holy ears should any not-properly-purchased music hit their virgin eardrums?
Your comment reminded me: I get into Las Vegas nightclubs for free, and hear the current hit music for free, since I don't spend any money. Would the music executives/producers consider this a form of piracy too? (I bet the greedy bastards do.)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Pay for music? WTF?
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There are plugins for Firefox and Chrome where you just tap "download" and it rips an MP3 to your phone. Then you tap "play random" and you have a couple 100 songs on rotation.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Keeping a copy locally though ensures it is available for your listening pleasure after it does suddenly vanish from YouTube.
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Piracy is easier than dealing with DRM. End of story.
Who is Tyler's dad?
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall