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Why Does Everyone Think the Music Industry Sucks?

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--- Quote from: busterone on March 31, 2012, 01:04:03 PM ---The greed of the corporate media gurus is the real problem. The artists are robbed by the labels and marketing companies, not by down loaders.

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I think that's why users worldwide think negative of the music industry— the more the record labels care for cash, the more the public domain protests against it!

CoreISP:
I download copious amounts of movies and music. It's completely legal here, it isn't theft. Nothing of the sorts.
Next to doing that, I also use Spotify now and then on my phone, I do pay for that. But I don't think that really makes the artists much ;)
Only if I truely consider a album or movie worth buying, I will buy it or go see the artist in concert, if they ever do them.


That aside;


--- Quote ---Read the last post and click on the link.
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What a garbage collection.
Do you have ACTUAL PROOF? All I see on the link you posted are opinions and a claim that "over one billion songs!!!!" (It's OVER NINE THOUSAND!) are download ILLEGAL blabla OMGOMG each year.
But erm.... Where are the proofs to back that claim? Please do show me. Where are they? :) Any legitimate source? Or are they just estimates made by Hollywood? Well, we all know how Hollywood can overreact ;) And that's all they do with music downloads... Overreact. Hollywood knows damn well they make tons of money thanks to people downloading. Yet they want even more, and that greed is eventually going to kill them.

You know, the fact is; music "theft" as you like to call it actually boosted sales and exposure *significantly*.
Without music sharing, artists, writers, hollywood, etc. would make far FAR less money. It all started out with mix tapes I guess; now, why didn't they stop that from happening? Cuz not everybody was buying it or KNEW about it; yet they DID go to see the concerts after getting the mix tapes.

How can we know this? Because in all the time "illegal" downloads are being done, sales have never plummeted. No, surprise surprise; it went up! And so did concert visitors.


You music guys are all the same, you consider every downloaded song a missed sale. This is false and not true at all. You should be GLAD your music is being shared. You make tons of money off of music sharing, if there was no sharing; the sales would plummet so deeply that hollywood would beg pirates to start doing what they did again.

It's up to parents to teach that greed is bad, but it looks like 90% of the music industry lacked such an education and also don't know what theft really is. The music prices, that's the actual theft, lol.
Make reasonable prices and you will see legal vs "illegal" difference go down. Look at Spotify, it's very affordable. They have *tons* of paying subscriptions. So what does this come down to yet again? GREED of the industry is actually slowing sales down... It's all thanks to the pirates that music sales remain going up and concert exposure is high. Without pirates... none of that would still work. The music industry's 1950 attitude would have killed it years ago.

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