Re: Theaving Goths


"vampire division" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>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.

But the evidence shows that this is in fact the case. Given that you've
provided no evidence, do you think perhaps you need to rethink this one?

> 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.

You know how many illegal downloads of your material there have been; you
don't know how many sales this may have caused or prevented.

> 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.

Excuse me? What evidence do you have that home taping "almost ruined the
music industry"? I've never seen anything that even remotely suggests that
the music industry was in any sort of trouble during the 70's and 80's;
could you please support this claim, or if you can't support it, retract it?

Illegal
> downloads are destroying the music industry once again,

Funny, it looks bloody healthy for something on the edge of destruction.
Album sales are higher than they have ever been.

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.

But there are new bands, and they are getting signed, so clearly this is
untrue.

See, I'm not entirely sure where I stand on the morality of file-sharing,
but those who stand against it tend to come up with arguments which are not
only unsupported by the evidence, but which actually contradict the
evidence; they say the music industry is being destroyed when actually it's
bigger than it's ever been, they say file-sharers buy less music when
actually the figures say they buy more, they say file-sharing is bad for
small bands when actually small bands benefit by being able to disseminate
and therefore advertise their music cheaply, and so on.

So how about we quite the empty rhetoric, and look at the _facts_, yes?

H


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