Pirate Bay Trial
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- shinpo0
The internet was created to SHARE information from one person to another (ICQ, chat clients, email, websites, news.) This was the premise of the internet to share information from one spot to another without have to bring a *physical copy* to the point of interest.
Why do artists create material? Because they want others to see, feel, hear and experience their work. Do you think an upcoming artists in his teens makes movies in his spare time for money? No.
See we as humans all have the desire to share our creations. The internet has made that possible on a large scale. Yet, some people would say what about making money? Lets look at that.
In p2p sharing who is actually losing money? Not the artist, but the producers of cd's or the record companies. Being designers we all know artists and they make their money through concerts and the selling of their own merchandise. And while they do make some profit off of the sale of cd's it is the label that takes almost all of it.
Who helps the artists with their merchandise - designers do. But you can't go to a concert while sitting on your computer at home. So no matter how many people download artists cd's or whatever off of the internet, thereby causing the recording label to lose money - the artists and designers still make money because they do so in peoples *actual presence*.
- no, the artists remain broke and having to endlessly gig far more very year, just to earn a crust.kelpie
- there's a thread of right in what you're saying there but there is an awful lot of wrong that gets brushed asidekelpie
- small labels suffer massively as a result of piracy, and they re the ones supporting new music and doing right by artistskelpie
- "piracy" is a different thing from having convenient mechanisms on hand to get and serve media onlinekelpie
- and at the end of the day 90% of people defend piracy becuase it means they don't have to pay. bottom line, no matter what arguments some smart folks can see for a sharing culturekelpie
- perfectly valid arguments some smart folk can see for a sharing culturekelpie
- uh i am in a band on small label and I can tell you that we, as the band, do lose money, not just the label.theredmasque
- our current album is on a bunch of pirate p2p places in russia for example.theredmasque
- my last album i was able to take a small vacation off of $ earned. Not this year so far because the distros are going down.theredmasque