Insurers Blame Fatal Stage Collapse on Illegal Music Sharing

[Tselis]

It's an insurance company, they want your money, they don't want to have to give it back.

 

[estoria-etnia]

Wait...

WHAT?!

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

.....What?

I would type something witty and clever but my brain pulled a muscle trying to understand that logic. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. If you're gonna point the finger at anyone, it should be the rigging crew for probably doing a crap job at making sure the stage is safe enough for the bands, roadies, and fellow crew members to walk and use without the fear of it collapsing.

 

[DTWolfwood]

i see, i guess insurers never had to take a logic class.

to make such wild extrapolations is exactly y Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon work XD

 

[Baresark]

I'd type a wall of rage, but the unmitigated amount of Republican stupidity is just...

What, pray tell, does Republicans have to do with an of this? That comment makes as much sense as the article in regards to the title.

 

[Mekado]

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Hang on...that's not what it says at all. Nowhere does the article say "Insurers blame fatal stage collapse on illegal music sharing" They are saying that insurance experts say that concerts in general are larger these days because of file sharing [edit: oh hang on, no they aren't, they say it's because of falling record sales, filesharing isn't mentioned] and therefore if something goes wrong there will be more people in the firing line. Still probably bullshit but really, you are twisting things massively. Again. Booo! Down with your misleading titles! There's some ridiculous spin around here alright.

EDIT: In fact, reading through it again even the shitty, completely quoteless, non sourced original article only mentions falling record sales, nothing about illegal downloading.

Yeah i understood the same too, i guess some nuances were lost in translation *cough* yeah right *cough*

It says the stage crash might not have been caused just by the storm but because artists need to make bigger live shows, with bigger stages and more stuff on it, the consequences are much more dramatic when something goes wrong.

They don't say the stage crash was caused by piracy, not by any stretch of the imagination.I think it had more to do with the 170km/h winds and rain you know...

"La pluie et le vent ne les detruisent pas plus qu'avant, mais quand elle tombent ca fais beaucoup plus de degats"

Wind and rain don't destroy stages anymore than they used to but when they do fall it makes a lot more damage

Sensationalism much ?

Edit: the source "article" is also crap, it dosen't even report the numbers right. original article 5 dead, boingboing says 4...what they had trouble translating a number? gimme a break...

Edit2: and the picture of the original article actually comes from Le Figaro, a very right-leaning paper, would you be surprised if for example Fox News said some shit like that ? no huh?

 

[Sarah Frazier]

I can understand that more people hearing about a band through pirated music would cause larger crowds, but really? Saying that if they'd just bought the CDs they'd have stayed home instead? If somebody has the time, money, and desire to see a live performance then having a couple of CDs won't make the least bit of difference.

 

[dyre]

I'd type a wall of rage, but the unmitigated amount of Republican stupidity is just...

What, pray tell, does Republicans have to do with an of this? That comment makes as much sense as the article in regards to the title.

The Republican unregulated "free market" policies allows the groups like the RIAA to rip-off musicians more, forcing those musicians to rely on live performances more, causing more deaths when bad weather causes stage collapse!

 

[Antari]

I really hope this is the last press statement this person ever makes. I also wouldn't mind seeing their brain disected for science, there has to be some sort of genetic marker we can track that enables this level of stupid. Either that or its a tumor.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well we aren't at all being silly here, it is odd how band stages in the rest of the world do manage to stick together.
And if there was a heavy storm shouldn't we also blame global warming, maybe even get some terrorists in on this.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

Or perhaps the RIAA is dipping their hands into the artists' pockets a little too deeply and they cannot afford proper safety measures?

Although, with the price of CDs these days (that is, stagnant and high *grumble*), who knows? Maybe there was enough data transfer to actually shift physical objects like a data-tornado!

Personally, I like CDs but the price feels like a bit of a slap some days when the online album is an even better deal by a few bucks. All of this is assuming an online retailer and not walking into the store where they try to pull that MSRP nonsense of ~$20.

P.S. Regarding ReCaptcha, are computers getting smarter because the phrases are starting to get hard to read for human eyes!

 

[Ldude893]

I didn't know insurance companies knew how to practice troll logic. They must be on the internet very often.

 

[Angerwing]

Seems like Pukkelpop is prone to tragedy. Last year the lead singer of Ou Est Le Swimming Pool killed himself after a show.


What a pity...

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Ok that has got to be the most idiotic backwards twisted fucked up logic I've ever heard in my life. While we're at it, why not blame the recent hurricanes on terrorists.

 

[Still Life]

That is a giant leap of logic. One which can only end in someone falling down, down into the darkest depths of a logical event horizon.