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The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) are on the same moral level as people who sell drugs to school kids. A harsh judgement but one I think I’ll justify. First this....
Mother faces music over girl's downloading
A mother whose teenage daughter was caught illegally downloading thousands of music files to her computer is being sued after the family were targeted by lawyers acting for the music industry body, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Sylvia Price, 53, was incredulous when she got a letter from a law firm acting for the BPI demanding she pay a £2,500 settlement fee or face court proceedings. She says she had no idea her daughter, Emily, 14, had been downloading music, her confusion compounded by the fact that she is unfamiliar with computers. But the BPI maintains that, as the holder of the internet account, she is legally liable to pay the settlement. As part of their latest effort to target those illegally downloading music, which the industry estimates costs £2.3bn a year in lost sales, the body has issued 90 such orders in the past few months, focusing on those considered the most prolific offenders.
Can I voice my opinion now? Here we go. The reason the record industry's takings are down £2.3 billion is because the music they release is shit. Complete and utter brown arsed crap. It's formulaic, predictable, dull, uninspiring soulless stodge. All the record companies do is watch each other to see what's selling to 10 year old girls then they all jump on the same bandwagon. The BPI exists solely to extract the pocket money of these kids and it does it by putting fads, fashions and hype over the development of genuine musical talent. Proof? That bastard frog thing. It outsold Coldplay by 4:1 a few weeks ago. Now I think Coldplay are a bunch of dullards, but they are the most successful British band in the US since The Beatles and sell very well here, so somebody loves them. But they were outsold in the UK charts by a ringtone, because that was the hype, that’s what the buzz was in the playgrounds of Britain that week. And now we have bouncing bears and I don’t know what else as all the record companies play follow the leader.
Blaming illegal downloading for their massive drop in revenue is a red herring. It shifts the blame from the record companies own short sighted incompetence onto the consumer who is fed up of paying over the odds for CDs containing 1 decent track (which was released as a single with 9 different re-mixes anyway) and 10 second rate filler tracks. If they stop trying to rip people off with over priced crap, people will start buying their products. It’s as simple as that.
Mother faces music over girl's downloading
A mother whose teenage daughter was caught illegally downloading thousands of music files to her computer is being sued after the family were targeted by lawyers acting for the music industry body, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Sylvia Price, 53, was incredulous when she got a letter from a law firm acting for the BPI demanding she pay a £2,500 settlement fee or face court proceedings. She says she had no idea her daughter, Emily, 14, had been downloading music, her confusion compounded by the fact that she is unfamiliar with computers. But the BPI maintains that, as the holder of the internet account, she is legally liable to pay the settlement. As part of their latest effort to target those illegally downloading music, which the industry estimates costs £2.3bn a year in lost sales, the body has issued 90 such orders in the past few months, focusing on those considered the most prolific offenders.
Can I voice my opinion now? Here we go. The reason the record industry's takings are down £2.3 billion is because the music they release is shit. Complete and utter brown arsed crap. It's formulaic, predictable, dull, uninspiring soulless stodge. All the record companies do is watch each other to see what's selling to 10 year old girls then they all jump on the same bandwagon. The BPI exists solely to extract the pocket money of these kids and it does it by putting fads, fashions and hype over the development of genuine musical talent. Proof? That bastard frog thing. It outsold Coldplay by 4:1 a few weeks ago. Now I think Coldplay are a bunch of dullards, but they are the most successful British band in the US since The Beatles and sell very well here, so somebody loves them. But they were outsold in the UK charts by a ringtone, because that was the hype, that’s what the buzz was in the playgrounds of Britain that week. And now we have bouncing bears and I don’t know what else as all the record companies play follow the leader.
Blaming illegal downloading for their massive drop in revenue is a red herring. It shifts the blame from the record companies own short sighted incompetence onto the consumer who is fed up of paying over the odds for CDs containing 1 decent track (which was released as a single with 9 different re-mixes anyway) and 10 second rate filler tracks. If they stop trying to rip people off with over priced crap, people will start buying their products. It’s as simple as that.
posted by phylos @ 08:21
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