Lily's filesharing campaign receives a blow
I blogged below on Lily Allen's campaign against fie sharers.
As she rightly points out, in the final analysis people will be stopping new artists from emerging, as record labels, starved of sales, are unable to fund recording and even hunt for new talent.
As people have commented on other blogs too pc gaming is really under threat, with console ports likely to be the only thing to be released in the long term because of the prevalence of piracy.
After all why should a developer put cash into great bespoke strategy games (for example) for the pc if people just rip them off?
Anyway Lily's campaign took a knock today when it emerged fellow stars Gary Barlow and James Blunt have backed her.
There goes public sympathy then...
2 Comments
Leave a comment
Profile
Ben Hurst
More multi-millionaires whining about the internet. The trouble is the cat is out of the bag, people expect to file share or read their news for free. And it's going to be near impossible getting everyone to pay for what they now have for free. There is no loyalty when one site charges everyone simply will find one that doesn't. That is the beauty of the internet! And it's one in the eye for the greedy corporations who seem to have us over a barrel in so many other aspect of our consumer lives!
YouTube sensation, why should we as consumers expect to get a piece of art/ music/ writing for free?
I agree we have over-charged for many years but we have to be careful we don't destroy the very thing we desire.
Lets not forget, it is also stealing from the artist - the earnings are effectively their salary - and all those people employed in the music industry as much as it is 'one in the eye for greedy corporations'.
With no money coming in to push new artists all we will end up with is a dirge of similar sounds. Then all those people who love music so much they don't want to pay for it, will only be able to share middle of the road pap.
The 'beauty in the internet' is as a research tool that has opened up a wealth of information to us - it is not in the theft of work that people have created.
Consumers wouldn't shoplift food from the supermarket to get one over on Asda or Tesco, so why should they steal music?
Sadly, I think it says more about the morals of someone who doesn't know the value of what it is to create something.