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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Interesting article Damien, I picked up on a couple of paragraphs..
Independent artist, own label, so no cruel mega-corporation stealing all her money from her record sales. You'd expect all those honourable downloaders and uploaders who do what they do to punish big music while paying for masses of content they actually do like, more content apparently than those who don't download it, to really enjoy her critically acclaimed work and reward her appropriately for it, especially given it's available online without DRM.
Yet a search for her name and the word 'torrent'..
About 90,300 results (0.69 seconds)
121 results on a well known Usenet search engine. This from an artist whose records aren't really super recent, isn't 'mainstream' and should be exactly the sort of artist the sanctimonious leechers pontificate about deserving support when they 'stick it to the man' by downloading mainstream content.
EDIT: Lovely comment from the uploader of one of the torrents.
So she did everything right down to making her music available free to stream, but it doesn't appear to be doing anything to translate to sales. It did however translate to illicit downloads.
Thoughts?
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That I think it is time that they went after illegal downloaders of copyrighted media but that they use common sense about it.
I don't want to see fan base websites about art,music,films,comics,photography,books,blogs and such penalised,just those that make profit and hand out copyrighted material for free unless it is their own work.
I really thought that the harrassment of children who set up Hogworts sites were very unappealing and a few other sites along similar lines that fell foul of copyright issues..