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Music piracy is on the increase worldwide, with 40 percent of users are accessing unlicensed music, up from 35 percent last year, the global recorded music industry group IFPI said.
Internet search engines are making piracy easier, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said in a report on Tuesday, calling for government action.
The increase in piracy follows a slump in recent years when policing of the digital music landscape appeared to be clamping down on the practice.
"Copyright infringement is still growing and evolving, with stream ripping the dominant method," said IPPI chief, Frances Moore.
"With the wealth of licensed music available to fans, these types of illegal sites have no justifiable place in the music world," she said, calling for greater regulation of the digital music sector.
If they defeat stream ripping, there's always the analog hole...
[Ed Note - OTOH "The report also revealed the continuing rise in audio streaming. It found that 45 percent of respondents were now listening to music through a licensed audio streaming service—up from 37 percent in 2016." ]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Snotnose on Wednesday September 20 2017, @12:39AM (9 children)
Back in the 70's I used to trade cassettes with friends. I often wished I could send a buck directly to the band, cutting out the middle man, the label, all the parasites that fed off the band.
That never became an option.
Now, in 2017, I wish when I find a good album I could send a buck to the band, cutting out the middle man, the label, and all the parasites that feed off the band.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday September 20 2017, @01:12AM (4 children)
My younger boy is 17 and listens to all sorts of music, I mean his tastes are really wide, and he will give anything a go.
He doesn't bother pirating music because Spotify gives him all the music he wants at a reasonable price. Isn't that the lesson the music business has failed to learn over the last 20 years?
Give your customers what they want, or they'll become someone else's customers.
(Score: 5, Informative) by TheGratefulNet on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:17AM (2 children)
I want local copies. fuck the 'stream'. the net is not always up and I'm less and less happy about being 'tracked' each time I click or do something.
the only thing I like about streams is that they are usually rippable.
even for youtube, I download via 'youtube-dl' and watch the local copy.
local copies are where its at. fuck the cloud. clouds suck.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Wednesday September 20 2017, @12:17PM (1 child)
I think the point still stands, though. Give the customers what they want, or they'll find someone else who will. Not everyone wants the same thing. I also like Spotify; I don't miss having to manually manage my entire library. But I know audiophiles for whom that is still important to them.
Possibly in your case it is "pirates" that give you what you want, because the labels won't.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday September 20 2017, @08:36PM
That's the point I was making.
The major labels have resisted any new delivery methods for so long their customers have found new methods of getting what they want, Spotify, YouTube or pirates. (I'm sure there are others).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @08:28AM
There's your problem right there.
Considering the entertainment lobbies ultimately want to control all access and usage of music, anywhere, anytime, they want to set what a reasonable price is. Namely, through the roof.
Copyright is a train wreck as-is, and it's an extremely dangerous one since it's going to be used to control more and more people economically and politically. The DMCA is already being abused to silence people. But even with that all aside, they want to make sure they extract every last cent possible out of you. Frankly I'm surprised Spotify has lasted this long.
(Score: 5, Informative) by urza9814 on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:34AM (2 children)
The majority of the music I purchase comes from Bandcamp.
Of course Bandcamp takes a reasonable cut, but the rest goes straight to the artists. And it's a flexible payment model -- the last album I bought was a $1 minimum but I chose to pay $25. Although in that case it was also a charity deal -- one of the artists recently passed away so one of the guys he used to work with put up some of their old unreleased songs to put together a college fund for his kid.
The other great thing about Bandcamp is that I pay whatever, and I directly get a link to a zip file of FLAC or Vorbis or any of several bitrates of MP3 or AAC or whatever format I want. And they send the same link to my email. I don't have to get an app or register an account or worry about DRM or anything; I can still re-download the tracks as much as I want if I lose or delete them as long as I have that email. I *could* register an account and download an app and keep a cloud library too, but I don't have to. And they'll usually let you stream the entire album before you pay for it so you know what it's worth to you. It's so much more convenient than piracy that it's worth the price on that alone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:02PM
For the love of all that's holy, could you please suggest to Bandcamp that they pay artists with some other technology than Paypal?
I mean, the model's great, the people are fantastic, the good feels are amazing but paypal actually makes the Chase banking group look like the good guys.
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Wednesday September 20 2017, @10:20PM
Well, you do realize of course that if Bandcamp isn't paying IFPI their stippend, they're *clearly* contributing to global piracy. The spi^H^H^H music must flow (through IFPI). There can be no music without IFPI.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:41AM
but you're going to have to find independent stuff you like. Even then a bit will go to the label (and/or distributor) usually, but it's less awful. Like I'd rather bandcamp got their take than have to deal with random donations and paypal and all that stuff myself.