Why Piracy is Perpetuating Plastic Pop

All over the world there are people purchasing varies musical products from artist in order for them to make money, and then from that they would be able to make more and more songs. There are also people who would not rather purchase a song but instead to acquire it without giving any profit to the artist. This has started out small but then more and more people start doing it, until it has become a global situation.

       

      Some people might say how could this be a global problem, it does not do any damage, and you might think that the only people who accuse this as a problem are just greedy artists and record labels. If you think through it for a while you could finally understand that is a chain of events that ends badly for everyone. When someone downloads some product by just one click of a button it might seem as not much is going on but what you’re doing is stealing from a person who has worked hard for that and they start loosing money, think if there are a million people like you who press that same button, they had then lost a huge amount of income. If this were to happen to most of the music groups out there then all the prices of the music will have to decrease in order to get as many people for them to buy their songs instead of illegally downloading it, if this action continues to fail this would lead the to the bands extinction.

      An example of a band trying to fight piracy had been Metallica’s Lars Ulrich when he had sued Napster for letting the world download their songs for free. In the end Lars Ulrich had demanded of a settlement of a minimum of $10 million, $100,000 per song that was illegally downloaded. This again had forced the myth of rock stars being greedy and the public had been arguing and debating, but in the end Ulrich had said that it had never been about the money but instead of control.

      Lily Allen was one of the few people who spoke about the opposition to online copyright enforcement; she had started to talk out on more older and successful artist by saying that it is easy for them to become more popular because they had made the money already. As for the younger bands it’s like they don’t even have the chance because they need the money to make more songs and if they were not to receive that much they would just disappear like dust from the world.

Noel Gallagher had been a bit more blunt about the subject by stating ‘The consumer [says] ‘Where’s my free music on the internet? Is there a free download?’ Fuck off! It costs me a quarter of a million pounds to make it, you’re not getting it for nothing. I want my quarter of a million back, thank you very much. That’s why we’re rock stars.’

This is a problem all over the world and something has to be done about this otherwise the problem will become too big to handle.