I have decided for this post I would not be reviewing any equipment or providing information on music copyright. Today in class we had a presentation on how Jay Z and Kanye West have come out with an album that has not been leaked. Well this presentation started a discussion about pirating music. I actually got really frustrated because it got me thinking. I am about to finish my master’s degree in entertainment business and I am about to head out into the industry. The music industry, incase you didn’t know, is dying. Customers, well I can’t really call them that, so I’m just going to refer to them as robbers. Robbers are going online, purchasing one copy of this album and then distributing in through torrents. Now a days, this is such a common thing that it doesn’t really make anyone think twice about downloading this stolen material.
What these robbers don’t realize is what they are actually doing is de-motivating these artist from creating music at all. These robbers are starting a slow downward spiral for the entire music industry.
It costs a lot of money to create an album and with out sales of these albums, those artists that you love so much are soon going to be unable to afford going into a recording studio.
Eventually, what is going to happen is that these artist are going to get fed up with the whole industry and its “customers” that they are just going to lose the will to actually create music for greedy music robbers who don’t deserve these artist to spend their lives creating music that they are not going to get reimbursed for.
The real question is… if you created something that took you months to create, something that you poured your whole heart and soul into, something that cost you possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars to create, would you be happy if people where taking it for free?
I have provided some videos that show exactly what can happen to people who pirate music.
What could have cost you 99 cents on iTunes can cost you millions of dollars from a pirating lawsuit. Do you really think it’s worth it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQzbY7FB98k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgbGhbrYbuY&feature=relmfu
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