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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: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:51PM (3 children)
Here's her likely response to your post:
"You don't need to listen to any of that old, obscure stuff. You need to listen to the stuff that we've made available for you on the licensed music services."
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Wednesday September 20 2017, @03:11PM (2 children)
Which still would run into the regional limits - quite little japanese, korean, russian(!), irish(!), east european, indian, pakistani, iranian, isreali, somali, brazilian and chilean music is available on swedish spotify (immensely annoying since lots of the stuff is available in closest region-appropriate spotify). Heck, I have troubles finding most canadian music I'm interested in when it comes to legal services.
For some reason British music is easiest to find online.
But yeah, since I'm one of those that wants my RnB to be Rythm'n'Blues, hate it when they increase amplitude in a song, want interesting lyrics, want bass to be muted and can hear a few craploads of artifacts from the mixing I guess I'm into obscure stuff these days.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:25PM (1 child)
Which still would run into the regional limits - quite little japanese, korean, russian(!), irish(!), east european, indian, pakistani, iranian, isreali, somali, brazilian and chilean music is available on swedish spotify (immensely annoying since lots of the stuff is available in closest region-appropriate spotify)
Surely all that stuff is available on YouTube these days. It may not be as convenient as Spotify (which personally I've never even used), but it's there. Find something you like there, then you can buy the CD (remember those?) on Ebay internationally. Screw "legal music services".
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Wednesday September 20 2017, @08:09PM
Nope, it isn't (at least not in acceptable quality). Well, at least not the stuff I can search for - language and characters are quite different.
For me music is either an very active process via a setup picked to work for classical music (which means it exposes pretty much any encoding flaws as well) or a background process which means the youtube UI _really_ sucks (as a pocket-player when out walking, I do not want to stop and interact with the phone four times an hour, when I'm out walking I want to enjoy the walk, otherwise I would have taken the tube)
And also - I have stopped ordering CD/DVD/VHS/MC(other than for crafts)/Vinyl/Floppy (never jumped on the BluRay et al. train), which excaberates the situation slightly (I know where to get slightly less than 10% of the stuff I'm looking for on CD/Vinyl - with a very real risk of running into an unwanted remaster), would have to think about it if offered on a sanely packaged SD-card however.
One of the last CDs I was looking for had a list price of about 180e (about 200usd at the time) in used condition :)