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| quote: | Originally posted by tiesto14
OH! SO i have never seen you in the tracklist room on TA helping with tracklists to live sets? Let me guess you paid for your live sets. After you downloaded them you felt so guilty and felt you had to vindicate yourself from such a low moral crime that you dipped deep into your pockets, past the lint, for money and sent it to the producers?
Look, let's be straight shooters hear for a moment. Can you actualy argue the fact that MP3s made this music bigger then it ever was or gave the oppurtunity for bedroom DJs to finally break out and get on labels?
Maybe you are too young to remember what it was like when there was no MP3s to trade. If you were then you and i both know that the trading of EDM MP3s was equivalant to the tech boom on the 90s....It made the whole scene explode into a scene that crosses all borders and walks off life...something it did not do as much of in the past. Because of MP3s people are travelling the world to see DJs and go to events...something that was seldom prior. DJs are playing Stadium shows ect etc.
Yet like the tech boom of the 90s which is dieing, people are now on some ethical battle to stop the spread of MP3 trading because it hurts the producers...well where were these self proclaimed moral adovcates of the law when the producers, they feel so sad for, were happy as hell to have their tracks passed everywhere for free...
Producers will always get payed....think of MP3s as free distribution and advertising....without them people would not be attending the shows of today like Innercity, TE, Sensation etc etc etc because they probally would not even exist....
EDM producers, for the most part, don't sell enough CDs to make that much anyway. And it has nothing to do with MP3 trading. For someone to make money in the music industry they have to sell a wicked amount of CDs/records etc..an amount that EDM producers just will not make in today's world. Maybe down the road - who knows. But it has zero to do with MP3s.
Like i said..without the trading of MP3s you would have half the producers u have today...because they would fizzle out...no one would ever hear of them. We would not have tranceaddict..because let's be real here..we all stumbled on tranceaddict while we were sifting through places to score live sets or singles. You want to bury your head in the sand and deny it..then so be it.
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If you knew anything about the guy, you'd know he was stuck on 56k for life due to living in a remote part of the country so doesn't willingly go out and download stuff for the sake of it. He spends a fortune on vinyl each week anyway, so even if he does hear some livesets at some point, at least he's contributing. That isn't part of this discussion though, it's not a case of mp3s being good bad or other, but that a company is using ripping groups to get hold of stuff and then wanting to sell them on for a profit to themselves, with no money going to each producer or label. Just because some of these producers are also known because of the internet and mp3s is another case you bring up, but whether a big or small name, it all takes their time & patience, and they deserve the common decency of at least being asked about stuff before it being advertised.
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?!? Now even I wanna make fun of you! People are just stating opinions - no need to get your panties all up in a bunch 'coz Radagast's view completely opposes yours (I think ya'll are both mad, but that's for a different thread.....oh, nevermind). Well, hope you have a nice day 
