More on piracy...

Jack-Flash-Jr

From SF Chronicle:

Music piracy used to be a big deal, but nowadays most pirates don't even bother.

Envisional, which helps companies prevent brand fraud, counterfeiting, and piracy, was recently commissioned by NBC Universal to look at the use of copyrighted material on the Internet.

The company looked at 10,000 files managed by the PublicBT BitTorrent tracker, and found that only 2.9% of them were music. That's way behind porn videos (35.8%), feature films (35.2%), and TV shows (12.7%). Even generic non-gaming software sparked more interest, with 4.2% of all pirated files.

In other words, people most don't care about music enough to pirate it. Although at least music came in ahead of anime.

The decline in music piracy is partly because iTunes did a lot to make digital music easy, removing one incentive to use file-sharing services like Napster (in the old days) and LimeWire (more recently). There's no question that iTunes moves a lot of music: it sold 5 billion songs just between June 2008 and February 2010, and the Beatles sold more than five million songs through the service in less than two months.

Then again, the Beatles haven't made a new recording in more than 40 years. Who else is selling millions of downloads per month?

Here's another way of looking at it: maybe the CD declines of the last few years have nothing to do with piracy or the move to digital. Maybe recorded music is going the way of sheet music in the early 20th century.

Tonedef

Most music nowadays is sheet anyway ?

Jack-Flash-Jr

Tonedef wrote Most music nowadays is sheet anyway ?

:roflmao:

:'(

raithza

Well that proves the point that people are far less likely to pirate if the legal alternative is as hassle-free... reminds me of this...

it's no wonder CD sales are down.... CD's are archaic and awkward...

What's also great about the digital revolution is that it takes a lot of power away from labels...

Bob-Dubery

Tonedef wrote Most music nowadays is sheet anyway ?

Nowadays?

This was released in 1974

Tonedef

I mean sheet in the mexican pronunciation sense.

Jack-Flash-Jr

I think we gotcha buddy ?

Tonedef

Well in that case i didnt get the 10cc thing at all.

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Bob-Dubery

Well come on... it's 10cc. There has to be at least one pun in there.

Tonedef

Ive heard the name but not the music. Lacking the esoteric knowlegde to catch the joke. But hey, at least now I know theyre sheet, right? ?

flatfourfan

Tonedef wrote Ive heard the name but not the music. Lacking the esoteric knowlegde to catch the joke. But hey, at least now I know theyre sheet, right? ?

pssssssst, the name of the album is sheet music..........

Tonedef

Izzit sheet music, though? ?

eta- opera mini shows a lo res pic of the album cover, so if it sez sheet music, i cant make it out.

flatfourfan

Tonedef wrote Izzit sheet music, though? ?

eta- opera mini shows a lo res pic of the album cover, so if it sez sheet music, i cant make it out.

correct............and stay off opera-min, you will grow hair on your palms, I see that your eye sight is already going...............lol.

Tonedef

I have a built-in fuzz effect, heh.

flatfourfan

Tonedef wrote I have a built-in fuzz effect, heh.

LMFAO!!!!!