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Music industry failing to promote legal alternatives to piracy
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| Trancefxs |
Telegraph news article about a research conducted in the UK by the Consumer Focus group:
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Music industry failing to promote legal alternatives to piracy
Nine out of ten consumers that are aware of music services, have only heard of two established brands – iTunes and Amazon, according to the research.
Consumer Focus, the Government-backed watchdog, sees the growth of the legal online music market as the best way to tackle online copyright infringement, but it claims that the music industry is failing to promote the many legal alternatives.
The consumer body surveyed 1995 adults and found that four in ten people are unable to name a single online music service at all – despite there being over 20 services on the market.
Consumer Focus has called for an ‘all you can eat’ music scheme so internet users can enjoy unlimited, legal music downloads for a small additional monthly fee.
Jill Johnstone, International Director, Consumer Focus, said: “The music industry is shooting itself in the foot by not promoting legal online music services. If file sharing is causing the damage the music industry claims, why aren’t they putting more effort in to promoting the legal alternatives?
“Before we go down the enforcement road it is only fair to ask the music industry to do more to make people aware of the legal options.”
The IFPI, the trade body that represents the recording industry, estimates than 95 per cent of downloaded music last year was not paid for.
The Government’s Digital Economy Bill, not yet law, contains measures to disconnect persistent offenders through a process of graduated warnings.
The consumer body has also called for reform of UK’s copyright licensing system to make it easier for online music services to offer copyrighted works to consumers legally.
They claim that reform would encourage the growth of more legal alternatives such as streaming, “all you can eat”, micropayment, advertisement or subscription based models.
The music industry said it was a “fallacy” to imply that awareness of legal music services is low.
Geoff Taylor, the chief executive of the BPI, the record industry trade body, said: “It’s just not credible to suggest that people who are downloading illegally haven’t heard of iTunes, Amazon or other legal music services.
“Our much larger, more recent and targeted online survey shows that awareness of legal music services among internet users is almost universal. The measures in the Digital Economy Bill are precisely what is needed to encourage illegal downloaders to move across to those legal services”. |
Taylor claim that awareness of legal music services is universal is far too optimistic. The label "downloaded music = piracy" isn't that easy to remove. |
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| idoru |
| Where's Captain Obvious when you need him? |
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| tanick |
| Downloading music is such a huge part of every day life now, but it's not the music industry's fault. |
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| Adam420 |
| It's only going to get worse. I buy music now because I bought music in stores when I was a little kid 15 years ago. Kids aren't buying music now, do you think they'll even consider buying music in 15 years from now? |
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| jupiterone |
| none of my younger friends buy music. none of them. the music that they download however, all those guys make so much cash they can buy a new car every week. as pathetic as it may sound, i feel no guilt stealing music made by people who make millions of dollars a year, i really don't. i save my money to be spent on artists who deserve and need the support, not a bunch of a ******s who sell out giant stadiums and ballrooms and have contracts with famous clothing lines and make up companies |
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| _Ocean_Drive_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Adam420
It's only going to get worse. I buy music now because I bought music in stores when I was a little kid 15 years ago. Kids aren't buying music now, do you think they'll even consider buying music in 15 years from now? |
I don't agree. Piracy has been around since the 8 track, and still people are buying music.
With iTunes finally removing their DRM (or at least mostly??), I think people would rather buy a quality ID3 tagged track with decent soudn quality (OK, iTunes isn't audiophile-suited, but it's better than most). than some crappy scene-release. It feels bettter paying and knowing you're supporting the artist in some way (I think).
If the download stores weren't around, then things wouldn't be looking too rosy at all. |
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| Fledz |
| 95% was stolen? Please, sounds like an inflated number to me. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by jupiterone
none of my younger friends buy music. none of them. the music that they download however, all those guys make so much cash they can buy a new car every week. as pathetic as it may sound, i feel no guilt stealing music made by people who make millions of dollars a year, i really don't. i save my money to be spent on artists who deserve and need the support, not a bunch of a ******s who sell out giant stadiums and ballrooms and have contracts with famous clothing lines and make up companies |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by jupiterone
none of my younger friends buy music. none of them. the music that they download however, all those guys make so much cash they can buy a new car every week. as pathetic as it may sound, i feel no guilt stealing music made by people who make millions of dollars a year, i really don't. i save my money to be spent on artists who deserve and need the support, not a bunch of a ******s who sell out giant stadiums and ballrooms and have contracts with famous clothing lines and make up companies |
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| sweetcaroline |
| Only 20 online music services? Seems like there are a lot more. |
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| enydo |
| quote: | Originally posted by jupiterone
none of my younger friends buy music. none of them. the music that they download however, all those guys make so much cash they can buy a new car every week. as pathetic as it may sound, i feel no guilt stealing music made by people who make millions of dollars a year, i really don't. i save my money to be spent on artists who deserve and need the support, not a bunch of a ******s who sell out giant stadiums and ballrooms and have contracts with famous clothing lines and make up companies |
yes. |
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| woscar |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
Where's Captain Obvious when you need him? |
Probably busy on a Theresa thread. |
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