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I know 2 guys personally, who're both musicians and were able to pull a decent living for over a decade by just recording and selling CDs. They do not tour, and never do any live events - they just create and record music. Maybe they're not your typical artists, but that's how they work and earn their money, by recording and selling CDs - and they have every right in the world to live the life they choose.
Both of them were hit by piracy BADLY. Their CDs do not sell anymore because they're freely available at any torrent site, and they do not do live events to make it up for the lost income. None of the two is recording any new music anymore and have to earn their living through other means.
Torrents and other file sharing sites can be a cool way of promotion for artists, when they want it, and when it's THEIR choice. What pisses me off is that none of the artists has any choice any more - the damn thieves are holding them all for ransom. It's either "free music and make money touring" model or "just fuck off we'll steal your music anyway". Copyright laws are not worth shit nowadays because they're not enforceable - them worthless parasites are holding us all for ransom, and trying to legitimize themselves by pointing to a few success stories where artists were able to use their godaweful sites for promotion.
I really HATE thieves, those lowlife scammers who're cannot create anything original to save their worthless lives, bubbling their delusional pro-piracy arguements, when I see it with my own eyes - two great musicians, two great pesonalities and good friends of mine, are now going down the low road, have to keep to low profile jobs because they're not really suitable for anything else in life except for creating music, start drinking, and have their lives ruined by piracy... Not to mention our own industry which is now only a shadow of it's former self.
For every torrent site success story, there's a dozen lives RUINED by that same torrent site. There's only ONE pro-piracy arguement - if I cannot run my torrent site, I'll have to go back to flipping burgers because I'm worthless parasite and my only chance in life to pull some decent living is to rip talented people off.
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