How to beat Piracy

[Fa-Q]

There was a thread in the Hiphop section about 50 saying he'll fight piracy until the end. Well he's only said that cause his album didn't break the 200,000 mark...anyway I was trying to think...how could a label beat the leak...the only was I can think of is hiring all the people that run the machines that burn all the CDs along with the people that deliver them and some how give them a bonus if it doesn't leak after a certain point. So that's my idea...what are your ideas?

[gutawafang]

Work alone. Almost impossible. But it's one of the ways.

[mrjizzbomber]

I posted this in another thread, but my ploy would be...

Release an album. Announce a tour a few months after the album release, with 10 cities. BUT, you will only hit the cities in which the album has sold the best (sales per capita). So, if you want your favorite artist to stop at your town, you have to go out and buy the album.

You can't stop piracy. Shit, even if not a single soul bought the album before release day, even if you kept it 100%, completely under wraps... when it is released to stores, it will be on the internet in about 15 seconds.

So, the solution is to give other incentives for people to buy the album.

[classthe_king]

Not selling it in stores is the only way.

[Almostlity]

Speaking of piracy, who downloaded "The Hurt Locker?" You're gonna have to pay $1500.

I'm so glad I used the logic that "The Hurt Locker" sounded like something starring Sylvester Stallone and passed on it.

i did, like 1 year ago. CIA ain't got shit on me.

[EminemBase]

True way to 'beat' piracy is by FULLY embracing it and finding many ways to work with it.

Online you can be every chain in the reaction. There need be no middle man. This is exactly why the labels do not want to work with it because in embracing it truly means taking power away from the labels and putting the artists in full control.

This is what we'll see happening now, artists becoming big without getting signed to labels. I wouldn't be surprised if online labels soon came into fruition, I had that idea myself but haven't the money to start such a venture. But yeah, the only logical, progressive way past this bump in consumer history is to iron it out. Stop pushing against it and start jogging WITH IT.

Then before you know it, we'll be sprinting. There's still lots of money to be made through different methods if anybody would be bothered to THINK. It'll just mean artists having to make BETTER music and be more creative with their images and marketing. This can only be a good thing for the music industry, so all these bullshit old-hat label execs telling the public it's killing the music industry are talking nonsense.

What they really mean is it's killing THEIR version of the music industry. Well, it's time for a new version. What they really mean is it's killing THEIR paycheck. Well, time for somebody esle to get paid, the artists. Big time. Mark my words that is the true progression. Also, the sales from iTunes and such show that most people still have no problem paying for music. They just want the convenience and ease of our most efficient medium at any given time. This has always been the zeitgeist.

After Vinyl it was CD but now it's digital. Not just the output but the presentation, everything. It's a new age and the guys stuck in the old age don't want to / won't embrace it because they can't. They don't understand it and it terrifies them. So instead, they act like spoiled kids. Start throwing lawsuits around thinking they can bully the ENTIRE Internet age into stopping their progression. Are they INSANE? That is certifiably the WORST possible way to go at this. They're idiots. Visionary artists will start realizing they don't need labels and true creative, digital and online output will become the MAIN source.

[EminemBase]

^ Oh come now Earth child. You may not do me this disservice on the 1st of a month. Why you may ask... Well, why do I call you Earth child. It could be ironic, it could be genuine, the point is... There is no point.

[dR3]

True way to 'beat' piracy is by FULLY embracing it and finding many ways to work with it.

Online you can be every chain in the reaction. There need be no middle man. This is exactly why the labels do not want to work with it because in embracing it truly means taking power away from the labels and putting the artists in full control.

This is what we'll see happening now, artists becoming big without getting signed to labels. I wouldn't be surprised if online labels soon came into fruition, I had that idea myself but haven't the money to start such a venture. But yeah, the only logical, progressive way past this bump in consumer history is to iron it out. Stop pushing against it and start jogging WITH IT.

Then before you know it, we'll be sprinting. There's still lots of money to be made through different methods if anybody would be bothered to THINK. It'll just mean artists having to make BETTER music and be more creative with their images and marketing. This can only be a good thing for the music industry, so all these bullshit old-hat label execs telling the public it's killing the music industry are talking nonsense.

What they really mean is it's killing THEIR version of the music industry. Well, it's time for a new version. What they really mean is it's killing THEIR paycheck. Well, time for somebody esle to get paid, the artists. Big time. Mark my words that is the true progression. Also, the sales from iTunes and such show that most people still have no problem paying for music. They just want the convenience and ease of our most efficient medium at any given time. This has always been the zeitgeist.

After Vinyl it was CD but now it's digital. Not just the output but the presentation, everything. It's a new age and the guys stuck in the old age don't want to / won't embrace it because they can't. They don't understand it and it terrifies them. So instead, they act like spoiled kids. Start throwing lawsuits around thinking they can bully the ENTIRE Internet age into stopping their progression. Are they INSANE? That is certifiably the WORST possible way to go at this. They're idiots. Visionary artists will start realizing they don't need labels and true creative, digital and online output will become the MAIN source.

Finally an essay.

[DƎRDYPK]

To stop the pirates
you must take their treasure
therefore
ERASE ALL MUSIC OFF THIS PLANET?!
TOO BAD THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!
MUSIC FINNA LIVE FOREVER! JUST LIKE ROACHES!!!!!!!!!