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A Billboard style music chart showing how many times a
song or album has been illegally downloaded from the
various pirate sites around the world.
I have a friend that did a calculation of how many times
a
music project of his was downloaded by going to the
various illegal download sites
and counting the
downloads.
It was well over a million. His legitimate sales were a
well
under that. This is the plight of the 21st century
recording
artist.
So since illegal downloading of music is here to stay for
the
foreseeable future, might as well give the artist some
credit by showing who was the most pirated that week.
The birth of the "Pirate Gold Album" perhaps?
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
http://torrentfreak...-bittorrent-120702/
[tatterdemalion, Jul 14 2012]
Top of the pirate charts:
http://www.televisi...aptain_Pugwash.html
[MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 14 2012]
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Several recently successful artists were brought to attention not because of their sales but because of their views on myspace/youtube. |
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Something similar is done for films (link). |
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By the way, this isn't a pro-intellectual property piracy idea. As somebody who receives regular music royalty checks, nobody is more anti piracy than me. However, if my stuff is getting stolen and listened to anyway, might be nice to see where it ranks on what people are stealing. |
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Illegal downloading is so 2002. Youtube has every song in HD and I can run it in the background on my smartphone. |
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Next, just humming a tune you like in the street will have the FBI reaching for their pad of blank extradition warrants. |
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Before the invention of audio recording, musicians would play in a venue and the audience (or venue owner) would pay them. If they didn't, the musician would either starve to death, or find another job. Either way, no more music. |
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Then, audio recording was invented. Musicians could perform once, and then wait for the royalties to roll in (but some listeners were still happy to pay for a live performance). Since duplicating recordings was technically difficult, most people were happy with this situation. |
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Then came the compact cassette, the CD rewriter, the MP3 player and the WorldWideInterWebNetThingy. Alas ! Listeners started to give music to one another for free, because they could. Fie, egad ! |
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Some listeners will still pay for a "live" performance. |
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Most people who download music wouldn't pay for it anyway. |
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Most musicians want their work to be heard. |
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Home taping is killing the music industry ... |
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Oooh, look ... "industry". Not "art" ... instead, something produced in large quantities to make money. |
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8's referring to the history of hysteria regarding
pirated music. I'll add that it was also thought by
some that recorded music would destroy the
music business that was at the time, primarily
based on the sale of sheet music. Then somebody
figured out that you get money selling records. I
believe some thought that radio would also be the
death of music which was about as wrong as you
can get. |
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Home taping wasn't the problem people thought it
might be because it was still a lot of work to make
a tape copy of a record just to end up with
something with no artwork, liner notes or lyrics. |
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Downloads didn't require any work so they caught
on like nothing before. They've had some negative
impact on record sales but they also have a pretty
big upside. Music is much easier to ship by clicking
a mouse than by warming up a record pressing
machine, putting the disk in a cardboard sleeve,
packing it in a box and putting it on a truck so it
can sit on shelves in record stores manned by
hippies. And though a single still costs 99 cents,
the same as it did in the 70s when I started buying
music, there's no overhead. It all goes to the
artist and Apple. So how come the music industry
is 1/20th of what it was in it's heyday in the 50s
through the 90s? |
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It might have something to do with how utterly
craptacular modern music is. Art-forms do die
when the artists and industry get too cocky about
selling crap rather than going through the hassle
of creating a quality product. Andy Warhol with his
3rd grader's rendition of a soup can and Jackson
Pollock's selling the drop cloths from his paint
studio helped to kill painting as a popular art
form. All you need is enough people who are too
scared to say "That sucks." and enough idiots who
pretend they like it so they can be part of the in
crowd to get rolling on the express train to
Crapville, but that's the last stop baby. |
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Ask any smart kid what they think of the music
the industry is trying to sell them these days. Sell,
crap, get crappy sales. Pretty simple formula. |
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So since you've never written a song that anybody
would want to buy you don't see why others
should be able to charge for their creative efforts?
Do you have little respect for authors who want to
get paid for their writing? I don't know of any
farmers who went broke just
because they got a couple of truckloads of corn
stolen. Who do those arrogant farmers think they
are? |
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Pandora and Slacker pays the artist and YouTube is
in the
process. They also provide links to buy the songs
so allowances have been made for the sale of the
music. It's not stealing because the artist gets
paid. |
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I know you're just wanting to say something nasty
under the guise of weighing in on some perceived
controversy but the "controversy" about whether
or
not people should be able to charge for the
intellectual property they've created was closed a
long time ago. |
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Not that that has anything to do with anything.
The idea was to give artists who have their stuff
downloaded without monetary compensation
some credit. |
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So people download music without paying for it because otherwise their family will starve? "Sorry kids, we're eating dumpster burgers again tonight because daddy bought the new Ted Nugent album with the welfare check." |
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How'd they pay for the computer, monthly internet bill and iPod? |
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Sounds like they need to spend less time listening to Ted Nugent and more time looking for a job. |
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Sure, pay for it like everybody else. It's 99 cents. |
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You wouldn't suggest they get their morning sixpack of malt liquor for free, why should they get free music? |
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Anyway, gotta go. Busy today. |
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