The Pirate Bay Trial

[Slimebeast]

NJ5 said:

Slimebeast said:

"people actually bought more because of downloading" is just bullshit.

U think it's a coincidence that the revenue from music has halved in 10 years?

Just because there's a statistical correlation between filesharing and buying movie tickets it doesnt say it is a cause and effect relationship. You are laughable if you think that. Of course a filesharer - who oftend tend to be young males - tend to go to the movies in a much higher rate than the average Swede like old aunt Agda.

 

Is that revenue from all music sales, including download stores?

The rest of the music industry like CDs is dying simply because people want to download. It's an archaic distribution method that will die with or without piracy.

And frankly I couldn't care less about these businesses's revenue. They want to exploit the artists as much as they want to exploit everyone else with their badly conceived media rights (i.e. if a CD of mine gets ruined I can't buy a cheap replacement even though I have already paid for the media rights once).

Artists make most of their money from concert tickets and selling t-shirts anyway... Music sales' revenue goes almost exclusively to the bloodsuckers in the recording industry.

 

Yes, it's archaic. But the destruction of that business model isn't up to a bunch of pirates to decide. A democracy and legal just society don't work like that.

And weather the music industry is unfair and rotten has no significance. We can't have the street mob decide what is a legitimate way to earn money and what is not. That's commie thinking.