IFPI: 95% of Downloaded Music is Illegal

[Aardvark]

I see no harm in suing people who download anything by an artist known as "Lil Wayne".

The only music purchases I made last year were Rock Band downloads. Coincidentally, they were the only music downloads I made last year.

 

[MercenaryCanary]

Be kind to the consumer, and your piracy rate will drop.
Valve proved that with Russia.

Oh, Valve.
What with your new and innovative game ideas.
When will the others ever learn from you?

 

[GunnerGraye]

I'm sorry if I fail to see the point here? I download music illegaly, and if its good I buy a physical copy of it, true most of the time I'll go direct to the artist and cut out the record companies so they wont see any benifit from my habbits but all they do is rip off the talent so fuck 'em.

Sure my download is illegal but as a reasult of it I put more money into artists pockets than I would downloading them legaly.

Same for the most part. But I usually download a couple songs, if I like them I'll buy the album. So i don't waste money on a s**t album.

 

[Royas]

I don't think this is an organization that can be called and objective source of data. It's in the best interest of the IFPI to report piracy rates as high as possible, it justifies their existence and convinces their member companies that they are truly needed to battle this horrible scourge. I wouldn't trust them to tell the truth if they had a gun to their head. I figure the 7% dip in revenue is more likely caused by the very poor worldwide economy as opposed to piracy. Frankly, I'm surprised it's only 7%, I was figuring on something in the double digits.

 

[keitarobg]

Hell some of the best bands of the last ten years I haven't once gotten a record from. Its just been live.

10-15 years ago bands did gigs to promote their album. Now,bands make albums to promote their gigs. I listen mostly to electronic music and one doesn't make a lot of money from one's album. Producers care more about live acts than albums,because you have to pay to enter. But you don't need to pay for an album,if you could find it online. More and more albums are released as lossless rips,so as far as quality is concerned,I can be sure,that I'm listening to top quality shit. Without paying.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

There's also the fact that most gig venues are suffering badly. Here in Leicester we've had three of the top English venues close.
The Pit: Voted by John Peel as the best Student Venue.
The Charlotte: Which has headlined Oasis amongst many many others.
& The Phoenix: Which shows the Can Film Festival. (Which is now back open)

 

[blackcherry]

Hell some of the best bands of the last ten years I haven't once gotten a record from. Its just been live.

10-15 years ago bands did gigs to promote their album. Now,bands make albums to promote their gigs. I listen mostly to electronic music and one doesn't make a lot of money from one's album. Producers care more about live acts than albums,because you have to pay to enter. But you don't need to pay for an album,if you could find it online. More and more albums are released as lossless rips,so as far as quality is concerned,I can be sure,that I'm listening to top quality shit. Without paying.

Thats a very good point point there. However, that the bootleg industry is still in in existence and that its more up to date with what people want than the bloody music industry itself (in this case I would put forth quality of sound), convinces me that if people want to hear it they will, even if official albums don't exist.

Paying an over inflated price just so the label can screw both us and the musician isn't I would argue what people want. That bands are increasingly releasing material for no charge online, hell having nothing to do with labels, shows me the dynamic is changing.

 

[konkwastaken]

This, I think, calls for the genocide of everyone under 25.

hey now lets slow down....i am 16 and i hate all forms of rap and/or hip hop. So when the world is yours, i ask you spare my life kind sir.

 

[Lusulpher]

This, I think, calls for the genocide of everyone under 25.

hey now lets slow down....i am 16 and i hate all forms of rap and/or hip hop. So when the world is yours, i ask you spare my life kind sir.

Dre Dre. Tupac Shakur. 100 Miles and Runnin'. Notorius BIG. Immortal Technique. Jazz. RnB. Gnarls Barkely. The 1990s.

Music is dying, I like to look back at it fondly, before I turn 22 and forget, what with me being so old, and knowledged, and all. The best music is the old illegally downloaded music, what does that say about the Industry?

I wanted to buy Time Life's Golden Age of Country last week! Country didn't suck bollocks back then.

Whippersnappers.

Also, 95% of the music is stolen, and the market is only seeing a decrease of 7%...WHAT?! That makes no sense, it's almost like if Piracy has NO EFFECT AT ALL...Captain Morgan is a sad panda.