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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 20 2017, @12:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the rising-tide-lifts-all-ships dept.

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." ]


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:35PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:35PM (#570689) Journal

    No, what you're saying might be true for others, but not for me. I have branched out to other musical genres and cultures for novelty. I have listened to Tuvan throat singing and Bollywood hits. For a time I had the dial set to Afro-Pop. For video I watched series like, "El Internado de la Laguna Negra," "La Reina del Sur," or "Parineeta." There are good things there.

    But I've mined it all out. Re-watching old series seems like a double waste of time. Sure, I enjoyed watching "Airwolf" when I was a kid, but as an adult its storylines are dated, to say the least.

    Once in a while something new and novel comes along, and I'll enjoy that, but there simply isn't enough of it to compel me to pay for anything. So I've lost the habit of paying for content.

    And as that has happened, I've noticed a general loss of interest in passive entertainment. It's much more entertaining to undertake active hobbies. Also with many of them the price is right, because they're free. I've taken up flint-knapping, and all I gotta do for that is pick up rocks and reduce them to tools. As I've done that, I've found myself buying less and less and making more and more of what I need or desire. And as I do that more, I find I prefer it because I know exactly what goes into it, unlike any given thing you might buy in a store made by companies you shouldn't trust in places that will divert what you give them to ends you abhor.

    I dunno. I haven't formulated any grand philosophy about it, but as I've been doing all that there has been a growing sense of freedom and confidence, and with that a greater sense of calm. Taking back control of the material side of life has conferred freedom, and being able to do that began with taking back control of my own time and mindshare. It's not just that 80 minutes of my evenings are no longer spent watching commercials, but that the entire evening is my own again. It's not just that my head isn't trapped playing a loop of a song in radio playlists, but that I can noodle around tunes nobody else has ever heard, but which I can now play because I taught myself the tools of making music. And it's perfectly fine if nobody else ever hears them or likes them or any of that, because it makes me happier than listening to anybody else's compositions ever did.

    Anyway, all of which is to say I have really enjoyed that I have gone off the reservation with respect to media. Don't even have a desire to pirate anything anymore. I sort of suspect that therein lies the true nightmare for the *AA's, that people might do somewhat likewise and un-learn the habits that have been so profitable for the content industries.

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