Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy

http://www.bassnectar.net/2011/08/fan-bass-leaked-music/

by Syama • 15 years ago

47 18 15 years ago

Always great to see artists' perspective on "piracy", the people actually making that "copyrighted work" and having to make a living out of it, rather than the opinion of the big corporations.

Syama• 15 years ago

It's also refreshing to see the artist open to input on this issue from their fans http://www.facebook.com/Bassnectar/posts/226030840772909

jarin• 15 years ago

Also, from what I've heard little or none of the funds gathered from RIAA piracy suits actually get to the artist anyway.

patio112• 15 years ago

Always great to see artists' perspective on "piracy"

Do you mean that sincerely, or do you mean it is always great to see artists' perspective on "piracy" when they're equivalent to your perspective on piracy?

I make a living selling "copyrighted work", and it determines whether I eat on any given day. I am not a big corporation. I think pirates are value-destroying parasites, and their justifications are self-serving proto-philosophy drizzled over gigantic entitlement issues. The fundamental justification for piracy is that stealing stuff is a lot preferable to buying stuff if stealing stuff carries no social cost to it.

I implement DRM and, worse to pirates, changes to business models which are 100% effective DRM++: put the bits which need protecting on your server, gate access to them based on payment. This both helps me continue eating and gives me that piece of mind that only people who are not getting their stuff stolen have.

That is just this artist's perspective, of course.

slowpoke3• 15 years ago

Oh dear, where do I start...

First off, stealing.

I don't give a crap how often you and others like you spout this bullshit, it doesn't make it any more correct. It's not stealing. It never was, it never will be. If you are unable to understand the consequences of digital media, that's a pity, but not the fault of the evil, evil pirates.

Second, that's a pretty nice appeal to emotion. Frankly, I don't give half a fuck whether you starve to death. If your business model cannot keep up with technology and you refuse to adapt (or worse, try to fight the change, which is ultimately a losing battle to everyone's detriment, including you), that's your fault. The evil, evil pirates are just a convenient excuse.

Third, if you really /need/ all this bullshit to get people to buy your stuff, then your doing something very, very wrong. Deliver a good product at a reasonable price and people will be happy to pay for it. Stop developing against the evil, evil pirates but instead for your valid costumers.

Fourth, if 'free culture/software' is a 'self-serving proto-philosophy drizzled over gigantic entitlement issues' to you, I can't help but feel sorry for you.

kingkawn2• 15 years ago

It's also interesting to see how much less serious this is to musicians and producers who weren't in the business before the mp3. This is the only world he knows, so he knows how to work it.

cageface• 15 years ago

It also sounds like he derives a lot of revenue from a healthy live following. Musicians that aren't as performance-oriented are probably less sanguine about this.

kingkawn2• 15 years ago

He derives a lot of his revenue from kids on E bugging out to his laser show. Good bass music if you're into that.

r0s• 15 years ago

Like Jonathan Coulton?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-inter...

I'd argue the opportunities for digital distribution far outweigh the risky and extremely limited opportunities of traditional physical media. The smaller artist has a major lack of publicity muscle. Piracy can provide just that; on a potential scale almost completely inaccessible to unknown artists.

I work for a small record label, I understand the problem very well.

maqr• 15 years ago

These views about piracy seem almost identical to the pirates' views about piracy.

Many nfo files include things like "try before buy" or "if you like this release, please buy it".

Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy

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