AC/DC's Black Ice: over 400,000 illegal downloads and counting...Repost
October 16th 2008 05:55
The repost below is a fair call to say "STOP DOWNLOADING ILLEGAL MUSIC!!"
Yes it concerns us all..It is so easy to steal the music off the internet, but all you are doing is taking serious cash from artists pockets. No wonder the music industry is in as bad disrepute as the entire economy.
Taking music from the internet is an infringement and a breach of copyright. Musicians need to be respected for the music they create and not be made a mockery of. The below is a story of one of the worlds biggest acts in a right spot of bother.
Seriously!! Would you go in to a clothes shop and say, "Give me that top for free." No, because you would be stealing from the designer and youd be hauled in to the police station for theft...
Stealing from musicians is no different...I dont care about the labels because theyre only big fat cash cows anyway, but the royalties the musicians miss out on is heart breaking...Would you like it if your employee said "You wont be paid for this weeks work!! This is a week of voluntary time."
Professional musicans are here to create music and sell their music to fans, it is not a charity...
REPOST............
It hardly comes as a shock, but one of the most anticipated albums in recent memory, AC/DC's Black Ice, has been leaked - in full - on illegal downloading sites. With the official release only days away, Black Ice has evidently been illegally downloaded 400,000 times via BitTorrent alone, and according to undercover.com.au that figure is jumping by more than 100,000 a day.
"It came out on sites last Thursday and that is to be expected these days," an Albert Productions' spokesman was quoted as saying on news.com.au. "All the forums are buzzing now they've heard it but most people are still saying they can't wait to buy it on Saturday."
Black Ice will be released on October 18 through Alberts/Sony BMG. AC/DC, vocal opponents of iTunes, are not releasing the album in digital form.
Yes it concerns us all..It is so easy to steal the music off the internet, but all you are doing is taking serious cash from artists pockets. No wonder the music industry is in as bad disrepute as the entire economy.
Taking music from the internet is an infringement and a breach of copyright. Musicians need to be respected for the music they create and not be made a mockery of. The below is a story of one of the worlds biggest acts in a right spot of bother.
Seriously!! Would you go in to a clothes shop and say, "Give me that top for free." No, because you would be stealing from the designer and youd be hauled in to the police station for theft...
Stealing from musicians is no different...I dont care about the labels because theyre only big fat cash cows anyway, but the royalties the musicians miss out on is heart breaking...Would you like it if your employee said "You wont be paid for this weeks work!! This is a week of voluntary time."
Professional musicans are here to create music and sell their music to fans, it is not a charity...
REPOST............
It hardly comes as a shock, but one of the most anticipated albums in recent memory, AC/DC's Black Ice, has been leaked - in full - on illegal downloading sites. With the official release only days away, Black Ice has evidently been illegally downloaded 400,000 times via BitTorrent alone, and according to undercover.com.au that figure is jumping by more than 100,000 a day.
"It came out on sites last Thursday and that is to be expected these days," an Albert Productions' spokesman was quoted as saying on news.com.au. "All the forums are buzzing now they've heard it but most people are still saying they can't wait to buy it on Saturday."
Black Ice will be released on October 18 through Alberts/Sony BMG. AC/DC, vocal opponents of iTunes, are not releasing the album in digital form.
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