Posted 2:14 PM by Dave Allen
From: Wendy K
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:58:28 +0100
Subject: Re: Internet Piracy and musicians

We woke up to this story being reported on BBC TV Breakfast news.
Here's how it went:

BBC reporter interviewed guy who manages Rough Trade, the record
shop and from the looks of it, they were on Talbot Road in Notting
Hill. Pete Donne (I think his name) from the shop said that he
wasn't surprised that vinyl and CD sales have increased in the UK as
we have "a strong relationship with vinyl and collecting in the UK".

They showed a UK teenager who said she'd downloaded loads from the
internet but she was still going out and buying her CD's, in fact she
thought she was buying more because she was finding more bands that
were like ones she liked. Another journo said that the main reason
why there wasnt such an impact in the UK was because not that many
people had broadband, and it was taking people half an hour to
download a song so they werent bothering. Ok, as of Aug 2001 .net
magazine only 2.3% of the UK households were connecting this way.
However, he forgot about schools and work where people are
downloading away. April 1st, BT reduced adsl rates to encourage
people to get broadband.

(btw: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain, Norway, UK, Italy in
that order for broadband connectivity in EEC)

if you're going to talk about piracy and musicians, there's as much
piracy going on outside the net in different countries as there is
online - can we go after all of the terrorists/pirates in the world?
or is there something we can learn from them?

i cant see the disappearance of vinyl -- yet. i work with and know
too many people who would rather spend $100 on a record than eat for
two weeks.

wendy


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