Well if these artists are good at their craft they will succeed. If not they should keep the "full time job" that they already have. Actually, P2P, YOUtube and torrent sites have helped quite a few unknown artists become famous and land a contract with a major label. There are also a lot of ordinary people scraping by and enjoying the benefits of file sharing. The record industry sold overpriced CDs for years and now the consumer is getting even. The industry did not adapt to a new paradigm. So they have suffered until they followed they way of Ipod and Emusic.
Will the Movie and Publishing industry follow the same course. Maybe so. But, charging a site millions of dollars in penalties does not solve the crime; it only shows the Movie Industries ineptitude and weakness. Yet, They still make millons of dollars at the box office each week. What a crock.
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Originally Posted by JAcheson
Right, and the same thing has happened with illicit CD and DVD duplicators.
Keep in mind, too, that while there are some big players in the multimedia content industries, there are also a lot of small guys who are just scraping by, and really feel the sting of piracy. Most musicians, writers and artists fall into this category. They don't make enough money to do it full time.
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