Comments on: The Value of Music: Plugging the Leaks http://musosguide.com/the-value-of-music-plugging-the-leaks/7571 Online Music Guide Thu, 17 May 2012 16:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: MitchellStirling http://musosguide.com/the-value-of-music-plugging-the-leaks/7571/comment-page-1#comment-3712 MitchellStirling Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:54:52 +0000 http://musosguide.com/?p=7571#comment-3712 Good piece although I take issue with using the terminology of 'stealing' music. Downloading illegal is copyright infringement, You need to permanently deprive someone of their property for it to be theft. One could argue that you are costing them a sale but that would be impossible to prove and the legality of downloading centres on you creating a digital copy that did not exist beforehand which could be used for further distribution against the artists will.<br><br>The obvious solution to the problem I've always thought would be to simply release a record as soon as it's finished, don't leave a two months between the day you sign off the masters to release date for a journalist or someone at CD pressing plant to leak it. Get it on iTunes, Spotify, We7, 7digital etc as soon as is possible. You won't lose any physical sales that way and likely you'll get people to pay for your 'leak' anyway. (see In Rainbows). It won't matter if it's your debut album either if the music is good enough you'll still shift copies of it regardless and long term that's what will see your career through anyway (side argument, if you have started making music as a career in the past 10 years you are likely going to fail anyway). Good piece although I take issue with using the terminology of 'stealing' music. Downloading illegal is copyright infringement, You need to permanently deprive someone of their property for it to be theft. One could argue that you are costing them a sale but that would be impossible to prove and the legality of downloading centres on you creating a digital copy that did not exist beforehand which could be used for further distribution against the artists will.

The obvious solution to the problem I've always thought would be to simply release a record as soon as it's finished, don't leave a two months between the day you sign off the masters to release date for a journalist or someone at CD pressing plant to leak it. Get it on iTunes, Spotify, We7, 7digital etc as soon as is possible. You won't lose any physical sales that way and likely you'll get people to pay for your 'leak' anyway. (see In Rainbows). It won't matter if it's your debut album either if the music is good enough you'll still shift copies of it regardless and long term that's what will see your career through anyway (side argument, if you have started making music as a career in the past 10 years you are likely going to fail anyway).

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