when you're on a ?126 million record deal, you can say what you like. robbie
williams could get a colony of naked au-pairs built on mars for him if he
wanted. why would music piracy threaten him? he should maybe think about the
rest of the musicians who aren't quite on his salary before making
comments...
quoted 48 lines From: "Irene McC" <substar@iafrica.com>
>From: "Irene McC" <substar@iafrica.com>
>Reply-To: substar@iafrica.com
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: [idm] music piracy (Robbie Williams)
>Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:33:05 +0200
>
>For those who haven't gone to the link, here's the full article:
>
>Music piracy is great, says Robbie Williams
>
>January 19 2003 at 01:22PM
>
>Cannes, France - Pop sensation Robbie Williams said he believes music
>piracy, which costs the record industry millions of dollars every
>year, is a great idea.
>
>"I think it's great, really I do. There is nothing no one can do
>about it. I am sure my record label would hate me saying it, and my
>manager and my accountants," Williams said Saturday at the MIDEM
>music trade fair here.
>
>Williams, whose contract with EMI is worth a reported $126-million,
>said he had investigated the issue of music piracy before
>renegotiating his new deal with the record company last year.
>
>"I went and saw all the labels and asked: 'What are you going to do
>about it?' And I heard a lot of hot air. The heads of the record
>labels don't know what to do about it."
>
>Williams' last album Escapology has sold five million copies since
>its release on November 18, but EMI is reported to believe it will
>only make a profit when about 18 million copies are sold.
>
>Currently, record companies fear that some 800 million bootlegged
>records are sold annually, compared with the industry's total legal
>sales of 2,4 billion discs in 2001.
>
>Meanwhile, the industry is also faced with the new challenge of the
>spread of music that can be downloaded free of charge from the
>internet.
>
>Total sales for the music industry fell by 9 percent last year to
>$30,3-billion. - Sapa-AFP
>
>
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