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Just stumbled about this site:
http://pirateverbatim.com/
They basically collect what artists say about pirating their music.
There are suprisingly many artists that see it as a form of gaining new fans who will then pay money for concerts and merchandise or will eventually buy the album, some do not promote piracy but accept it as a given, and some are complete assholes.
Justin Timberlake:
Green Day
Guns N Roses
KISS
Well I for one know two bands which will never ever see a dime of my money.
http://pirateverbatim.com/
They basically collect what artists say about pirating their music.
There are suprisingly many artists that see it as a form of gaining new fans who will then pay money for concerts and merchandise or will eventually buy the album, some do not promote piracy but accept it as a given, and some are complete assholes.
Justin Timberlake:
It [illegal downloading] didn?t affect me so much- when it came out I was probably about 19. So I understood both sides of it. If I hadn?t dropped out of school, I probably would have been at university and I probably would have been downloading music if it was that easy to. . . So I identify very emotionally with the defendants, being college kids, that these labels were going after. . . The record companies should take responsibility for not being of the time and not paying closer attention to what was going on. I don?t think one person sitting in a dorm room killed the music industry. . . On the other side, I know songwriters who had to take up different jobs because they don?t get to perform onstage, they don?t have endorsement deals. They get a small piece of the small pie to begin with.
Green Day
?We leaked the whole record before it came out. We couldn?t stand people not hearing it anymore. At the end of the day, if you write a good enough record, people are going to pick it up. Steal the damn record, I don?t care. If some kid doesn?t have any money and his buddy gives him a copy of the record. . . he?ll pick it up when he?s 20.?
Guns N Roses
I hope he rots in jail. It?s going to affect the sales of the record, and it?s not fair. The Internet is what it is, and you have to deal with it accordingly, but I think if someone goes and steals something, it?s theft.?
KISS
How are you going to get paid for it if people can just get it for free? . . . The record industry doesn?t have a fucking clue how to make money. It?s only their fault for letting foxes get into the henhouse and then wondering why there?s no eggs or chickens. Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid?s face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning. Those kids are putting 100,000 to a million people out of work. . . [They] may as well be wearing a bandit?s mask. . . Doesn?t affect me- but imagine being a new band with dreams of getting on stage and putting out your own record. Forget it.?
?Make sure your brand is protected. Make sure there are no incursions. Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars. Don?t let anybody cross that line.?
Well I for one know two bands which will never ever see a dime of my money.