Don’t cut of file sharers say…. The music industry!
It appears some in the music industry at least realise that the UK governments plans to pull the plug on internet file sharers, is a moronic and stupid move.
Despite not normally understanding how the internet work’s Billy Brag said “We should be encouraging people to become music fans, and whether we like it or not, illicit downloading does encourage people to become music fans”.
The problem with the UK Government idea of cutting throes who use P2P services to share files is it won’t work as Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien said, “It’s as simple as that. I was talking to a serial file-sharer the other day, who is a friend. He downloads films and he hasn’t paid for music for six years. I asked his opinion of it and he laughed. He said, ‘even if they cut me off I’ll still be able to do it’. It’s something you do not want to take on, so move on.”
If you kill off P2P services people will just carry on ripping MP3’s from Flash movie files shown on YouTube. If you kill off YouTube, people will just share things via another method.
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree says it best when he points out, “The sensible thing to do is to try to see how we can monetise all this file-sharing activity, which is evidence of a lot of interest in music.”
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