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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 Thexalon on Wednesday September 20 2017, @09:30PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday September 20 2017, @09:30PM (#570857)

    Genre: My bread and butter is performing for contra dances (if you've never tried it, it's vaguely similar to square dances, but a lot less formal and more common north of the Mason-Dixon line). It's so not-profitable that my teacher, who was the recipient of national awards, had about 15 albums, and 17 published books of the music he composed, kept his day job as a teacher his entire life. I play others styles as well: singer-songwriter, Celtic rock, filk, and classical, but again not a ton of money in that.

    As for popularity: I'd generally put my fan base at somewhere around 250-500, of which about 100-150 is local. Not terrible, especially considering the size of my venues so far, but certainly not filling Wembly anytime soon.

    I'm not in it for the money, but if I got more pay for doing what I do it would enable me to:
    - Buy better equipment than what I've got.
    - Travel more to perform in places I haven't been to.
    - Consider quitting my day job (software development) and do more performing and recording.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by nnet on Wednesday September 20 2017, @11:07PM

    by nnet (5716) on Wednesday September 20 2017, @11:07PM (#570890)

    this is why you want a universal basic income, so you can pursue dreams.