Not a big poster, gotta throw in here though.
Piracy, is a fad name. Stop using it. It is the ultimate shopping experience, and they hate it. The industry has long thrived on selling garbage sprinkled with gold dust, you used to see it all the time. By CD, love 1 or two songs, hate CD. The label only sees numbers, and doesn't care about anything else period, not quality, and certainly not originality. The music industry has EXPLODED with new talent, ideas, concepts, and sales strategies directly because of "piracy". Aside from art (and lets remember all these "pirated" mediums are supposed to be art) what else would you purchase on the strength of an ad campaign alone? If you're an intelligent consumer you will demand to experience art before you buy it. period. We can argue the about this all day long, but I'm here to tell you that the vast, vast majority of "pirates" out there are also the people who buy most of the legit stuff as well. We are the fans, we are the consumers, we are your source of income, and we are sick and tired of being taken at every turn by Billion dollar ad budgets, psychology tricks, and the "sales" industry in general. The market is speaking very loudly and our "free market" economy doesn't like it. If it is good, it will still sell, if it is bad it wont. But rather than listening to an overexposed, over taxed, under payed and under utilized demographic, the industry has instead refused to comply and adapt to demand. Wages are down, costs are up, no one has any money to give you anymore, but we are addicted to your products BY DESIGN, it's a part of society to experience all this must see and must hear and must play art now, you wanted it that way. It costs me 13.50 for a movie ticket, 22 + for any cd thats not on the charts, 70 for a game. Call it what you want but you broke the market. You are talking multiple work hours for a movie ticket for alot of people. A lot of innovation has come out of this to make it easier and cheaper and more convenient for people to get ahold of products without piracy. Good first steps like iTunes, or selling singles for a fraction of the cost of an album are good both for consumers and for the industry, NiN for example, thank you trent for letting us experience your work before we commit as should be done by all artists. The Offspring are another example of a band that, once they owned their own product again, did what they could to make getting their art a more legitimate experience. The artists trust that we will buy what we can, the "piracy" community has changed to take on that mentality as well. Now it's solely the industry with bought politicians trying to convince an ignorant public that we are thieves. I resent that, I have the largest movie collection of anyone I know (bought and paid for thanks), same goes for music, again for games, we're talking hundreds. But even I can't keep up with you people and your weekly releases and slick ad campaigns. So I will shop as I do, for free, and when I can afford to reward an amazing talent, I will, so will all of us. Targeting innocent people and making them criminals for trying to dictate the market is a sin, shame on all of you. Artists you need to find ways of getting away from these distributors that steal your work for their own gain, it'll be hard but you can do it better and cheaper now than an overinflated piece of shit industry every could, I realize it's about the exposure, but the internet has proven you don't need them anymore, and that is what this is really about. Sorry for length, God's peace to you all.
We can do that. 