Piracy improves not only music, but also movies
It's no secret that in recent times it has become much more. For example, here is the American statistics : if in 2000, 35,516 new music albums were published, then in 2008 - already 79,695, including 25,159 digital ones. Although sales are falling, but music is becoming more and more, for every taste.
It happened, as it is not difficult to guess, largely due to computers, the Internet and P2P networks. Piracy and the general availability of torrents allowed musicians to significantly expand their musical horizons, learn about new musical directions and hear thousands of new groups that they would never have heard, if not piracy.
As a result, not only the quantity but also the quality of new music, the variety of genres and the general professional level of the performers are improved. This was recently told in the BBC interview by the lead singer of the popular in the UK group Fleet Foxes. He says that if it were not for “napster,” their group would not have appeared at all.
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But not only musicians benefit from piracy. The level of new movies is also rising.
For example, another example is the new work of director Tommy Palotta (author of a good cyberpunk film A Scanner Darkly) entitled American Prince, which is directly related to piracy , because only in torrents Palotta could find a high-quality version of the cult film 30 -year-old American Boy from Martin Scorsese (by the way, one of the most famous scenes of “Pulp Fiction” was made from this film). It was this masterpiece that inspired Palotta to create a new painting. Naturally, he immediately put his movie in the torrent .
There is no doubt that young filmmakers are among the most active users of P2P, as well as Palotta. Where else can they get acquainted with the pictures of the classics, download new items and art-house, expand their horizons and get creative inspiration? Although sales in the market are falling due to P2P, the benefits for the development of culture and society are obvious here.
via Techdirt
It happened, as it is not difficult to guess, largely due to computers, the Internet and P2P networks. Piracy and the general availability of torrents allowed musicians to significantly expand their musical horizons, learn about new musical directions and hear thousands of new groups that they would never have heard, if not piracy.
As a result, not only the quantity but also the quality of new music, the variety of genres and the general professional level of the performers are improved. This was recently told in the BBC interview by the lead singer of the popular in the UK group Fleet Foxes. He says that if it were not for “napster,” their group would not have appeared at all.
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But not only musicians benefit from piracy. The level of new movies is also rising.
For example, another example is the new work of director Tommy Palotta (author of a good cyberpunk film A Scanner Darkly) entitled American Prince, which is directly related to piracy , because only in torrents Palotta could find a high-quality version of the cult film 30 -year-old American Boy from Martin Scorsese (by the way, one of the most famous scenes of “Pulp Fiction” was made from this film). It was this masterpiece that inspired Palotta to create a new painting. Naturally, he immediately put his movie in the torrent .
There is no doubt that young filmmakers are among the most active users of P2P, as well as Palotta. Where else can they get acquainted with the pictures of the classics, download new items and art-house, expand their horizons and get creative inspiration? Although sales in the market are falling due to P2P, the benefits for the development of culture and society are obvious here.
via Techdirt
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/63340/
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