Re: Theaving Goths

I would say that soon even the majors will fall by the wayside, file
sharing is the Spinning Jenny of the music world. Anyone who says other
wise who believes that file sharing leads to more sales, is mistaken.
That article in Net Magazine is almost certainly not the actual truth.
Most people do not like to admit that they have done something wrong,
so they demonise their victims, a rapist will say "She was asking for
it dressed like that", The burgular will say "It was their fault, they
left a bedroom window open". File sharers have assembled a legion of
reasons, that they feel legitamises their actions, and most of these
are myths.

In Inkubus Sukkubus we have released around a thirty songs into the
public domain, this we feel has allowed people to download us free, and
also crime free, and it has led to sales, however we are still being
ripped off because there are thousands of people, sharing tracks that
we have not released, some of these files are on sites that list
downloads, so we know what sort of figures we are talking about. So I
feel that in our case very few illegal downloads lead to sales, people
who say that downloading stuff makes they buy the real thing are simply
lying to themselves. But we know that we can't stop it, so we just have
to accept it.

Back in the 70s and 80s home taping almost ruined the music industry,
and it was only the introduction of the CD that saved it. Illegal
downloads are destroying the music industry once again, companies will
sign less bands, there will be no incentive for people to be in bands,
there will be no more new bands, actually most of this is already
happening.

File Sharers are the Enemies of Rock 'n' Roll.

Matthew North wrote:
> The BIG industry will always survive, there is always money from big lables,
> they ahve the powere to advertise and to sell product no matter how crap it
> is (eg crazy frog) and the bands at the bottom have a much smaller slice of
> the pie. Robbie can loose a million and it wont make much difference to him.
>
> Small goth band can loose 1000 CD sales and its the diffrence between the
> next album being poorly produced or well produced.
>
> Matthew

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