Thursday, March 7, 2013
Copyright
File-sharing is not all bad for musical artists. The radio increases record sales by allowing free access to music. Likewise, artists gain popularity through file-sharing. They make money from this in other ways. I will use myself as an example. I discovered the band Silverstein through friends and file-sharing. I liked their music so much that I paid $25 to go see them live and even bought a t-shirt. Let me do some math. Buying Silverstein's CD would be around $12; what they got from me was around $40. Had I not discovered this band through file-sharing, I would not have bought their CD, gone to their concert, or bought a shirt. Companies can complain about copyright infringement but it honestly is not the artists pushing these laws, it is the company executives who want to continue to rule the industry.
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That's a good example and producers actually do make a lot of profit from file sharing. I wonder if music sharing would be effective at all if it didn't include files.
ReplyDeleteYeah, file sharing should be league. Mainly because cd sharing is legal, and there's not a whole lot of difference other than it's on a much larger scale.
ReplyDeleteI think there's also a difference between file sharing among friends, versus anonymous file sharing in a public domain where many can access it. Ideally, music artists want you sharing it with friends (and so do executives), but I think they're upset most with posting the whole CD online where many others can get it.
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