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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler
Not saying it's right or wrong, but what's your take on Courtney Love's speech Mr. A? |
It's actually another one of Courtney's not very well researched rants.
Bearing in mind it dates from 2000 when she thought that Napster et al were not "piracy" it shows just how ill informed she was on the subject matter.
A more objective, and indeed factually based analysis if you can find it is
Steve Albini's. Whilst parts thereof have been debunked it is, for the greater part, accurate in its analysis of the money tree from my knowledge and experience of it.
The bottom line is, irrespective of one's opinion of major labels & publishers (and it's interesting how Courtney's changed after the death of Kurt), it's the small guy (ultimately the artist) that gets hurt.
This pretence, for that is what it is, that "pirates" are "fighting the industry" is a nonsense. If they really wanted to "fight" the industry or "destroy it" as Christian Engstrom put it, then the best way for them to do that is to ignore the product / output all together - a total boycott where the industry cannot cite "piracy" as a prime cause of its losses.