Monday 8 December 2014

Consumers vs Producers

Never before has the world seen this many pirates (at least since the 1600's, heheh). Har har har!!!! :-). With the quite recent invention of pirating/torrenting software and websites such as uTorrent, bitTorrent, ThePirateBay, and isoHunt, anyone with a computer and the ability to use Google can steal an artist's piece of work. Obviously both the creators of the torrents and the downloaders of them are in the wrong even though pretty much everybody uses or listens to pirated music.With the technology that we have today, it would be very hard to completely end this and that is probably why the government isn't cracking down on it (besides arrresting the founders of ThePirateBay). Most artists don't even make most of their money off of album sales, rather they make the largest portion of their wealth from touring. I feel as if pirating isn't going to come to an end anytime soon so artists should try to find another way to use their music to make money such as touring more.