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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 Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 20 2017, @05:00PM (1 child)
Yeah, but Taylor Swift and Katy Perry are not interesting to me. I hear them and all I get are echoes of Tiffany or Debbie Gibson, which I didn't care about the first time around. R&B...it's an aesthetic that doesn't appeal to me, and its sensibility is callow. "Just like a tattoo, I'll always have you..." does not strike me as poetry. Okkervil River and indy bands like them my wife listens to, but it's dull to me. A couple years ago I was down at SXSW, one of the US's venues for cutting-edge music, and it was all a big meh.
And foreign music, that's not a real remedy. I appreciated Toumani Diabate and Boubacar Traore and Kodo, but it wears thin, too.
Everything is derivative unto tedium. Perhaps it's the access to the content that produced it, such that I grew sated more quickly in life than was ever possible for people before who had culture titrated toward maximum profit, dripped out in precious droplets. I've passed over the horizon of such things and can't find my way back, and my pocket money can't either.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday September 20 2017, @05:35PM
Yeah, but Taylor Swift and Katy Perry are not interesting to me.
I should hope not; that's corporate-manufactured crap.
I hear them and all I get are echoes of Tiffany or Debbie Gibson, which I didn't care about the first time around.
That stuff was crap too, but at least the mass-produced crap in the 80s was better than the mass-produced crap now: back then, they didn't have Autotune, so those pop singers actually had to have some talent.
I appreciated Toumani Diabate and Boubacar Traore and Kodo, but it wears thin, too.
Now that's more like what I'm talking about. If you've explored this far and wide, then I don't have any more advice for you.