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3/20/2013 4:45:26 PM
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Music sales are not affected by web piracy
[quote]A report published by the European Commission Joint Research Committee claims that music web piracy does not harm legitimate sales.
The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies examined the online habits of 16,000 Europeans.
They also found that freely streamed music provided a small boost to sales figures.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said the research was "flawed and misleading".
"It seems that the majority of the music that is consumed illegally by the individuals in our sample would not have been purchased if illegal downloading websites were not available to them," wrote the researchers in their report, Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data.[/quote]
So thoughts on the subject? Do you pirate music? I do all the time I am not paying to have a copy of music that I do not own and I don't want to buy an album just to get a few songs.
The only music I have payed for is the Halo 3,ODST,Reach and 4 OST's.
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13 回复This just in: Lonepaul once again attempts to break the law for his own, disgusting purposes.
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7 回复I pay for music. If I don't pay people for their work how can I expect to be paid for mine?
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由Vicex编辑： 3/20/2014 7:40:39 PM[quote]Music sales are not affected by web piracy [Therefore I should be able to pirate anything I want].[/quote] That's not how things work in the real world. Stealing something that is not a necessity needed for survival cannot be justified.
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1 回复Piracy actually helps music. Some artists sell out concerts to places that haven't even bought one of their CD's.
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16 回复I use a music streaming service. I support piracy. Art shouldn't be motivated by money.
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I find this interesting. I have never paid for music nor have I sold it. But I have always had this almost guilty feeling in pirating. But if I couldn't pirate it I wouldn't buy it anyways and it's nice to know I'm not the only one.
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I donate on Bandcamp when I download songs from there. I probably wouldn't even have very much music on my devices if download sites were not available. I enjoy music, just not enough to pay out the ass for one song on album I enjoy. I think the problem for me is that I don't like many artists, but I do like many individual songs. I'm not really genre loyal either. So, I can buy an album and pay $13 for one or two songs or pay nothing for a single song and support my independent artists through merch and donations. [spoiler]There is an exception, I have bought four of mc chris' albums. He is my favorite artist ever overall.[/spoiler]
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1 回复I never pirate my music but I don't care if other people do, considering I've known these facts since forever. I actually know a lot of small artists who encourage people to pirate their music (or they offer most of their music for free.) The idea is getting your name out there.
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6 回复[quote]Do you pirate music?[/quote] When I want to add music to my iPod I rip it from a YouTube convertor.
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1 回复I do listen to music on YouTube, but if I ever download any music I'll pay for it. Does that make me a pirate?
