July 1, 2009 at 14:19Piracy raises not only music but also films
It's no secret that there has been a lot more new music lately. For example, here are the American statistics : if in 2000 35.516 new music albums were published, then in 2008 it was already 79.695, including 25.159 digital ones. Although sales are falling, there is more and more music for every taste.
This happened, it is not difficult to guess, largely thanks 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 the new music, the variety of genres and the general professional level of the performers improves. Recently, in an interview with the BBC , the soloist of the popular UK band Fleet Foxes spoke about this . He says that if it weren’t for “napster,” their group would not have appeared at all.
But not only musicians benefit from piracy. The level of new films is also rising.
For example, here's another example - a new work by director Tommy Palotta (author of a good cyberpunk film A Scanner Darkly) called “The American Prince” , which is directly related to piracy, because only in torrents Palott could find a high-quality version of the cult film 30 years ago by American Boy by 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 Palotte to create a new painting. Naturally, he immediately posted his movie in torrents .
There is no doubt that young filmmakers are among the most active users of P2P, just like Palotta. Where else can they get acquainted with the paintings of classics, download new items and an art house, expand their horizons and draw creative inspiration? Although sales in the market are falling due to P2P, the benefits to the development of culture and society are obvious.
via Techdirt
This happened, it is not difficult to guess, largely thanks 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 the new music, the variety of genres and the general professional level of the performers improves. Recently, in an interview with the BBC , the soloist of the popular UK band Fleet Foxes spoke about this . He says that if it weren’t for “napster,” their group would not have appeared at all.
But not only musicians benefit from piracy. The level of new films is also rising.
For example, here's another example - a new work by director Tommy Palotta (author of a good cyberpunk film A Scanner Darkly) called “The American Prince” , which is directly related to piracy, because only in torrents Palott could find a high-quality version of the cult film 30 years ago by American Boy by 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 Palotte to create a new painting. Naturally, he immediately posted his movie in torrents .
There is no doubt that young filmmakers are among the most active users of P2P, just like Palotta. Where else can they get acquainted with the paintings of classics, download new items and an art house, expand their horizons and draw creative inspiration? Although sales in the market are falling due to P2P, the benefits to the development of culture and society are obvious.
via Techdirt