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| Thread ID: 128117 | 2012-12-03 08:29:00 | $4,000 fro 11 songs ! - Come on | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 1316194 | 2012-12-03 08:29:00 | See this article in today's Herald. www.nzherald.co.nz 11 songs - hope they were good songs and not Justin Beiber! It would be Ok if we could buy lossless versions of songs and CD's instead of crap 192 bit. Steve Jobs has fooled the whole world who think they are buying music from Itunes etc. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1316195 | 2012-12-03 09:03:00 | If it is impossible to get HQ audio tracks where do the pirated ones come from? | icow (15313) | ||
| 1316196 | 2012-12-03 09:06:00 | If it is impossible to get HQ audio tracks where do the pirated ones come from?Usually ripped directly from the CD. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 1316197 | 2012-12-03 09:33:00 | To be accurate, the claim for actual loss was a mere $1175. If you rip a Rihanna track and seed it to a torrent then you could easily expect 50 downloads - Rihanna is one of the top artists and pirated every few seconds. So she and her recording company miss out on $2.39 (Applestore) every time someone gets it for free. Or Justin Beeber misses out. Or Metalica who hate pirates. Multiply that by 50 or 500 or 5000 and next thing you are talking real money. I'm neutral on this issue but can see the recording company and the artists point of view. My children's friends have $hundreds/$thousands of movies, tv shows, rock concerts, and albums stored on their PS3s and hard drives. We must be approaching the point where more entertainment data is pirated than is paid for at which point, the singers/bands/actors simply give up. Would you bother - assuming you wanted to put food in your mouth? |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 1316198 | 2012-12-03 09:42:00 | Yes, sales hard drives would still be 250 gig if people only stored "data" word documents and spreadsheets. I am also neutral on this subject. I do feel sorry for the artists. And even if the record companies sold good quality digital music, people would still "share" it. But the other side is that of those 50 people you think may have downloaded that Rihanna torrent how many would have bought he CD if there were no sharing? 5 or 10 of them ? The other side is that thousand of people audition each year to be on America's got talent. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1316199 | 2012-12-03 11:09:00 | To be fair it's the record companies that miss out. The artists still get paid by the label, most money comes from tours as opposed to sales. Big names don't get "hurt" by piracy. It's the middle ground artists that suffer whilst the no name guys are happy to get their stuff out there. Of that $2, how much does the artist receive and how much goes to apple/licensing/record? That's how much the artist should get in compensation, these lawsuits are all commercial. I doubt the artist will see any of that $15 000 |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1316200 | 2012-12-04 02:20:00 | lets looks a situation of a few file shareing people who all get caught..... 1. Amy, shares a copy of the cool song. she is chaged for 50 copies of the song as it is decided that 49 others must have downloaded it from her. 2. Bob get a copy of the same cool song from Amy. he also is chaged for 50 copies. 3. Chuck got his copy from Amy. he also got chaged for 50 copies. Amy paid the $2.30 for shareing it, Bob paid $2.30 for downloading it? Surly Amy paid the fine for Bob and Chuck in her list of 50 copies? So now the music company is getting paid twice for the one crime? |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 1316201 | 2012-12-04 02:41:00 | True, but they'll only ever catch Amy, so they bill her for Bobs mistake ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1316202 | 2012-12-04 02:45:00 | I've restarted buying physical discs again, ever since stuff started being released in 5.1 surround on DVD-A. To be fair though, I've also been downloading a fair bit of stuff in FLAC in addition to the stuff purchased off I-Tunes as the quality is generally better. (Quality of the sound, not necessarily the music) |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 1316203 | 2012-12-04 20:59:00 | Usually ripped directly from the CD. Then that's what people need to by if they are after FLAC. Services like itunes are in no way required to distribute music in any format. Yes it would probably decrease piracy as i would imagine it is easier to download a rip online than it is to drive to the shops but the fact you can legally get HQ audio means there is no excuse for piracy. The fact that services like itunes don't offer HQ audio however removes their parent companies right to ***** about piracy though (imo). |
icow (15313) | ||
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