Regardless of anybody's stance on piracy, it is completely clear that file
sharing is here to stay and is an obvious market force in the music
industry. It will not be stopped.
If file sharing somehow affects your current revenue stream in a negative
fashion then you need to rethink your business model. There are artists who
distribute 100% of their music for free and do quite well for themselves
financially. Refusing to accept the reality of the situation, or, worse,
deriding and complaining to others about the moral implications is just
plain infantile. Markets are amoral. You are not special.
Step up your marketing game, play a live show, sell some merch, press some
vinyl, get a better agent, improve your product so that more people want to
hear it; all very viable things to improve your revenue stream in a post
file-sharing music economy. Arguing the moral implications of file sharing
is a waste of energy that could be spent elsewhere in a more productive
fashion, especially for those who refuse to accept file sharing as the
status quo rather than a transient blip in the market that will be
magically quelled in the future.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Jared Dunne <22tape@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 52 lines The problem with this list, and the internet in general, is that it's full
> The problem with this list, and the internet in general, is that it's full
> of know-it-alls, who write stupid long declarative thesis' trying to
> convince people that they're right.
>
> "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
> -- Andre Gide
> I don't hate people who pirate music. I just hate everyone. Now,
> download my mediocre shit here:
>
> https://soundcloud.com/22tape
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Jon Sands <fohdeesha@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/21/2014 2:29 PM, Juho Hietala wrote:
>>
>> you’re disgusting, connor.
>>
>>
>> Lol, I think I'm going to illegally download the mediocre music of
>> everyone who has responded to this thread like above just because of how
>> shitty and childish they're being.
>>
>> You all remind me of Benn Jordan when he wrote a novel-length
>> announcement about how piracy was killing his sales and it really needs to
>> stop....except he forgot to set his Oink profile to private, and you could
>> see all 60GB of copyrighted music he had pirated in the last 12 months.
>> Super cool dude. Get off your high horses. Ever looked up and listened to a
>> track on YouTube that was copyrighted and illegally uploaded by a 3rd party
>> user? omg, you pirated, I can't believe you would ever listen to a
>> copyrighted track without paying for it. Every grabbed a track off of
>> soulseek? omg, you're a pirate.
>>
>> Music industry revenue is up, not down. Sales of LP's are up nearly 50%.
>> Paid audio streaming revenue is up more than 50%. Piracy isn't killing
>> anything, if anything it has caused revenue to increase, if you really want
>> to try and draw the shitty causation=correlation conclusions currently
>> being drawn in this thread. I think you're all just mad nobody wants to pay
>> $30 on bandcamp for your super indie bangers
>>
>>
>> http://business.time.com/2013/02/28/revenue-up-piracy-down-has-the-music-industry-finally-turned-a-corner/
>>
>> --
>> Jon Sands
>>
>>
>
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