Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy
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Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy
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Re: Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy
#2Always great to see artists' perspective on "piracy", the people actually making that "copyrighted work" and having to make a living out of it, rather than the opinion of the big corporations.
Re: Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy
#3Always great to see artists' perspective on "piracy", the people actually making that "copyrighted work" and having to make a living out of it, rather than the opinion of the big corporations.
It's also refreshing to see the artist open to input on this issue from their fans http://www.facebook.com/Bassnectar/posts/226030840772909
Re: Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy
#4It's also interesting to see how much less serious this is to musicians and producers who weren't in the business before the mp3. This is the only world he knows, so he knows how to work it.
Re: Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy
#5Always great to see artists' perspective on "piracy", the people actually making that "copyrighted work" and having to make a living out of it, rather than the opinion of the big corporations.
Also, from what I've heard little or none of the funds gathered from RIAA piracy suits actually get to the artist anyway.
Re: Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy
#6It's also interesting to see how much less serious this is to musicians and producers who weren't in the business before the mp3. This is the only world he knows, so he knows how to work it.
It also sounds like he derives a lot of revenue from a healthy live following. Musicians that aren't as performance-oriented are probably less sanguine about this.
Re: Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy
#7It's also interesting to see how much less serious this is to musicians and producers who weren't in the business before the mp3. This is the only world he knows, so he knows how to work it.
It also sounds like he derives a lot of revenue from a healthy live following. Musicians that aren't as performance-oriented are probably less sanguine about this.
He derives a lot of his revenue from kids on E bugging out to his laser show. Good bass music if you're into that.
Re: Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy
#8It's also interesting to see how much less serious this is to musicians and producers who weren't in the business before the mp3. This is the only world he knows, so he knows how to work it.
It also sounds like he derives a lot of revenue from a healthy live following. Musicians that aren't as performance-oriented are probably less sanguine about this.
Like Jonathan Coulton?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-inter...
I'd argue the opportunities for digital distribution far outweigh the risky and extremely limited opportunities of traditional physical media. The smaller artist has a major lack of publicity muscle. Piracy can provide just that; on a potential scale almost completely inaccessible to unknown artists.
I work for a small record label, I understand the problem very well.
Re: Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy
#9These views about piracy seem almost identical to the pirates' views about piracy.
Many nfo files include things like "try before buy" or "if you like this release, please buy it".
Re: Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy
#10Always great to see artists' perspective on "piracy", the people actually making that "copyrighted work" and having to make a living out of it, rather than the opinion of the big corporations.
Always great to see artists' perspective on "piracy"
Do you mean that sincerely, or do you mean it is always great to see artists' perspective on "piracy" when they're equivalent to your perspective on piracy?
I make a living selling "copyrighted work", and it determines whether I eat on any given day. I am not a big corporation. I think pirates are value-destroying parasites, and their justifications are self-serving proto-philosophy drizzled over gigantic entitlement issues. The fundamental justification for piracy is that stealing stuff is a lot preferable to buying stuff if stealing stuff carries no social cost to it.
I implement DRM and, worse to pirates, changes to business models which are 100% effective DRM++: put the bits which need protecting on your server, gate access to them based on payment. This both helps me continue eating and gives me that piece of mind that only people who are not getting their stuff stolen have.
That is just this artist's perspective, of course.