Piracy Is The New Radio, Says Neil Young

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Piracy Is The New Radio, Says Neil Young, topic for me .. I would have to disagree with original link title. It isn't only piracy that's the new radio, it's Internet - says too Neil Young.

Piracy Is The New Radio, Says Neil Young: on torrentfreak.com: http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-the-new-radio-says-neil-young-120201/

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'While the singer is concerned about the fact that many people share low quality MP3′s, he’s not falling for the argument that piracy is killing music.

“It doesn’t affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around. [...] That’s the radio. If you really want to hear it, let’s make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.”

The comparison to the radio is interesting as that has been one of the biggest promotional tools of the music industry in recent history.'
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I like this reply by skeptic180 in comments section:

'The new bands starting out? There hasn't been a good mainstream artist out in years. It's all copycat garbage where every song sounds the same. The ones that are complaining are the record companies that would like to pay next to nothing to their artists while continuing to make enormous profits like they did in the 90s, when music was actually worth listening to. A little hard to accomplish when the main audience for 90% of mainstream artists is in the preteen/teen age range. Any quality underground bands that are starting out, their music is not likely to be circulating around bittorent. And the good local type bands that you hear about aren't hung up on that BS either. As Ptae said, they make their money from gigs and merchandise and have a good time doing it too.
And movies? When is the last time there was a brilliant new movie idea? The movie and music industries are running out of ideas, and this whole avalanche of lawsuits has more to do with that, and the bruised economy, than the protection of intellectual property. File sharing has been around since the earlier days of IRC and they, the big powerful corporations, haven't tried so desperately to nip it in the bud until now.
So, what's the next step? Maybe shutting down Youtube, who has as many supposed copyright violations as MU ever did...maybe Google, for indexing torrent sites and forums that may lead to such? How about all those businesses on eBay that rip apart computers and sell the individual parts for financial gain? The list is endless and these blood suckers will not stop.

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* Video with the original conversation Neil Young - Walt Mossberg: Neil Young’s Music Rescue Mission: on AllThingsD.com: http://allthingsd.com/tag/neil-young/

* RUST RADIO: http://www.rustradio.org/
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So Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio - says livejatz.com: http://liveyatz.com/2012/01/31/neil-young-is-right-piracy-is-the-new-radio

QUOTE:
'The musician’s comment puts a lot of the hysteria about copyright infringement into perspective — as we’ve pointed out before, file-sharing and monetization aren’t mutually exclusive, and in many cases a certain amount of so-called “piracy” can actually be good for business, as authors, musicians and even game developers have come to realize.'
'Radio was seen as piracy too, but became a publicity engine.
But more than just being a source of fees, radio was also a huge publicity engine for music, and eventually this became so obvious that at one point record labels were giving radio stations and disc jockeys “payola” under the table to promote their music. And now we have come full circle with Neil Young’s comment:

"I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around." '
'British author Neil Gaiman — who I interviewed recently about his opposition to the proposed federal anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA — said that he used to be irate about people pirating his work, but eventually came to realize that he was actually selling more copies of his physical books in those countries where piracy was the highest.'

Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web: on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qkyt1wXNlI

'Brazilian author Paulo Coelho found the same thing, and actually started uploading his own work to files-sharing sites without telling his publisher.

Some game developers — the digital-era equivalent of songwriters and authors, in many ways — have also come to see piracy as being a necessary evil ..'
'Markus Persson, the Swedish developer of the massively popular game Minecraft, has said that he came to see piracy of his game as a form of marketing. And at a recent music-industry conference in Europe, the CEO of superstar game company Rovio (creator of Angry Birds) said that piracy “may not be a bad thing” because it increases demand for the official version of the company’s products.'

'Even Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has been known to see the virtues of a little piracy, especially in developing markets like China.' Haaa ..

So I too want to pirate now - the fresh air in the surrounding woods! ..
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