San Quinn thoughts on Free Downloads
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It is not really as simple as downloading someone's music for free being equal to stealing. The vast majority of illegal downloads are people downloading music that they would never otherwise buy just because they can. But, again, if they didn't have the option to download, they would not buy it.
The problem is that, of course, once people download an album they actually like, there is no incentive to buy it because they already have it. However, that accounts for a very small percentage of illegal downloads - if what you could afford to buy if there was no internet was 5 albums a month, and you are downloading 100 (most of which you never even really listen to), it is not as if you have stolen the other 95 albums (which, again, you may not have even listened to). But you don't know which 5 albums of those 100 you would have bought a priori and just as downloading music for free is unfair to the artists, it was unfair to people when back in the days you would buy an album without knowing whether it is good or not and it would turn out to be garbage with 2 or 3 good tracks out of 20.
San Quinn's albums from the last half a decade are firmly in the category of albums one would never bu, BTW, simply because of how much they suck
What is needed is a system that rewards music quality and shifts the transfer of money from listeners to artists from the point of acquiring the music (whether is is physical CD or digitial MP3) to the process of listening to music. It could be done in principle but it would require dismantling the whole industry as it currently exists, so it is not going to happen any time soon.
The problem is that, of course, once people download an album they actually like, there is no incentive to buy it because they already have it. However, that accounts for a very small percentage of illegal downloads - if what you could afford to buy if there was no internet was 5 albums a month, and you are downloading 100 (most of which you never even really listen to), it is not as if you have stolen the other 95 albums (which, again, you may not have even listened to). But you don't know which 5 albums of those 100 you would have bought a priori and just as downloading music for free is unfair to the artists, it was unfair to people when back in the days you would buy an album without knowing whether it is good or not and it would turn out to be garbage with 2 or 3 good tracks out of 20.
San Quinn's albums from the last half a decade are firmly in the category of albums one would never bu, BTW, simply because of how much they suck
What is needed is a system that rewards music quality and shifts the transfer of money from listeners to artists from the point of acquiring the music (whether is is physical CD or digitial MP3) to the process of listening to music. It could be done in principle but it would require dismantling the whole industry as it currently exists, so it is not going to happen any time soon.
I listen to this rap shit all the time and for the past 5 years the ONLY artists shit I have purchased are as follows:
1. A-Wax
2. Slaughterhouse group and Royce solo shit ( I would by Crooked's albums but he hasn't released one ever)
3. Fed-X
4. Messy (not in 3-4 years)
If there was no music available via download from the homies or the internet I would be forced to buy a lot more shit from the store or Amazon or wherever the fuck.
So yea it's takin food outta artists kids mouths fasho
1. A-Wax
2. Slaughterhouse group and Royce solo shit ( I would by Crooked's albums but he hasn't released one ever)
3. Fed-X
4. Messy (not in 3-4 years)
If there was no music available via download from the homies or the internet I would be forced to buy a lot more shit from the store or Amazon or wherever the fuck.
So yea it's takin food outta artists kids mouths fasho
Would SOPA help at this point?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57329001-281/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57329001-281/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/
Oh my god this is terrible... could somebody please get a hold of Ja Rule so I could make sense of all this.... WHERE IS JA?
