Don’t you know that for every song or movie you download from ThePirateBay, you single handedly cause the untimely death of an artist?
There’s an informative kids TV program being shown in Sweden, home of TPB, that shows a classroom being scolded for downloading left, right and center. “Artists want to get paid,” says the man behind the curtain, “and every time you download, that artist doesn’t get paid.”
I guess it’s easier to tell kids they’re “bad” than explain to them the complexities of the parasitic artist-label relationship.
Sweden Warns Kids Against The Pirate Bay [TorrentFreak]
How is this video helpful? It’s in another language.
I am so sick of reading about bloggers who think it’s their job to do something about the “the parasitic artist-label relationship” by stealing intellectual property. How would CrunchGear feel if someone started cutting and pasting its content and sharing it in its entirety along with different ads that made money for someone else (or if every reader starting using ad-screening software to turn off CrunchGear’s revenue stream)?
I’m no fan of the way music labels work, but how does that give anyone the right to pay $15 for a CD, rip it to a torrent, and make it available for thousands (or millions) to download for free? If you are annoyed at labels, then support artists directly or buy indie music and send a signal to the labels that force them to change.
I think bloggers with something to lose (such as CrunchGear and its ad revenue) should be careful about the way they advocate theft. Today it’s the IP from musicians and labels, but tomorrow it could just as easily be your IP!
I looked and looked but could find no english in that video.
Hmm doesn’t this video emulates some ABC “journalistic” job that kids got their Seinfeld fix from the usenet????
Oh wait, it does…
BTW, what’s with the fake screen watching the Madonna video?
Can you believe on a “journalistic” approach that relies on faking screens (even on the opposite side of a monitor) just to “illustrate a point”?
Listen, stealing… not good ok? But this does not get the point across, does not make you go hummm, doesn’t even get anything other than a big meh!
Is this the rise of a new communist era? lol… where either you think “america, fuck yeah!” or you are a commie? (or a terrorist?)…