Poll reveals fans' downloading and copying habits
Tue 17 Jun, 2008
Unfortunately a lot of music companies do themselves no favours with fans with this sort of nonsense. Okay people download music illegally and share it illegally but they spent years robbing music fans before music sharing became a 'big issue'.But who gets this information? How many of these downloads are of pre-releases or live versions/remixes etc? The music industry also does itself no favours with 'proper music fans' when they pay stars like robbie williams and westlife huge amounts and then plead poverty. Look at how much it costs to go to a gig these days - £50 to see the foo fighters, oasis, metallica to name a few. Then by the time you pay for a hotel (cos they only play big cities) travel, t-shirts, food and drink you've spent £200 going to see them, so pardon these kids nicking a few tracks which they could have taped off the radio anyway. Do they consider the positive impact of downloading music for free? How many people (like myself) have downloaded someone like the libertines many moons ago and subsequently bought their singles, albums, ep, babyshambles and dirty pretty things album and singles, gone to see them about 12 times live and bought t-shirts, etc? I'm in a fortunate position now i'm a bit older where I can afford to buy albums, cds, downloads (owning the cd is much better).If they spent more time trying to diversify their product range and offer a better service to fans including things like interaction with the fans then maybe the kids would be less inclined to pinch tracks. But if you ask a group of kids how many kids have stolen something, you can't tell me nearly every kid would say as they've nicked some sweets from a sweet shop or something like that.....These are also the record companies who constantly refuse to do anything about ticket touts as well which quite frankly makes me not care one bit about whether someone pinches music or not. Football clubs ban ticket sales (ok thats because of the threat of hooligans getting in) but it shows that they can be stopped so until the companies start trying to look after the fans the kids are always going to stick two fingers up at the record companies and fair play to them.
Tue 17 Jun, 2008
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'Nearly 100 per cent of music fans copy music illegally'
Poll reveals fans' downloading and copying habits
Tue 17 Jun, 2008
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