95% of all downloaded music from the Internet - pirated

According to the latest data received from the IFPI agency (this is such an international RIAA), the entire music industry earned about $ 3.7 billion for the whole of 2008. It seems to be not so bad, but the representatives of this industry are probably very upset by the fact that this money were paid for only 5% of music downloaded from the internet. As a rule, someone paid for it alone, and everyone else downloaded for free. The statistics is simple: for 1 person who could honestly pay a dozen or two bucks for an album they like, there are 14 parasites from the point of view of the IFPI.

Despite the fact that musical statistics, according to tradition, is one of the most obscure areas for research in principle, the 2008 IFPI report explicitly hints that only 5% of music received from the Internet is legally acquired. And, perhaps, it is sometimes worth thinking about this topic seriously, otherwise one day 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg will not have enough pieces of paper to buy another Ferrari Bentley tortilla.

At the same time, there are quite a few examples of actions from world-famous musicians, during which the music, in essence, was distributed free of charge (Radiohead, Flashbulb, NIN) according to the principle “Pay as much as you like”. And it is known for certain that a very large amount of money was being earned on this, and NIN, which released the collectible versions of the Ghosts I-IV tetralogy, earned more on these boxes alone than on selling the two previous albums. Needless to say, creativity should be encouraged anyway, and if you pulled an album off the torrents and you liked it, then it is logical and reasonable to buy its real version - claims to you will disappear from human rights organizations and from the music industry.
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via Gizmodo