Pirate sites influencing the (dance) music industry
BBC’s Newsbeat shares that a new wave of pirate sites — websites offering illegal downloads for free or for money — is affecting dance music in bad ways. What’s important to realise here is that these so called pirates ‘imitate legal download and streaming sites, to fool people into thinking subscription fees are paid back into the industry’. In fact, these fees aren’t paid back to the (dance) music industry, which hurts the sales of both digital and physical music formats — and ultimately the (independent) record labels and artists.
AudioLock, world’s leading music specific anti-piracy service, has noticed that all these sites simply get away with it — and they are just the tip of the iceberg. It’s hard to analyze how much these sites earn to run and earn money through its enterprise, however it’s enough to affect the (dance) music industry and music consumers download behaviour.
Our opinion is that music is meant to be payed for, as intellectual property and the ‘final result’ is simply worth more than a penny or unpaid listen. We’re surrounded by music, whether you feel vibrations on the dance floor or at home — and every artist should be rewarded for his or her music creation.
There are millions of people that download music on a daily basis, imagine what would happen to this industry if they decide to spend money at real digital music and vinyl vendours instead of at illegal pirate sites…
