On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:00 +0100, Paul Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > While I understand why people download copyrighted material without > paying for it, do it as they think the artists should get a better > deal, we need to perhaps campaign for them to get a better deal. > Let's get a fair deal for artists, and a fair deal for consumers, > then perhaps this bill will no longer be needed. Paul
The most well-known, signed-up, nationally or globally promoted artists certainly lose a lot of their royalties because of pirating, but the unknown, not-signed-up artists and those signed up with very small companies which do not do national or global promotions, gain by it, because their work turns up on file sharers and gets heard, whereas otherwise no-one would know what they sounded like, even if they were mentioned occasionally in articles in the music press. However, the people who lose most are the major companies themselves, of whose revenues royalty payments to artists are a fairly minor part. Most pirate filesharing is of globally known and promoted commercial music. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
