Piracy via Mix-CDs kills the Music Industry
Why are DJs destroying the Music Industry?
For the most part, DJs are paid on a per assignment bases making anywhere from $150.00 a night to thousands a night. It doesn’t surprise me to know that DJs try to make a little extra money on the side selling mix-CDs, especially those DJs who do not really have a big name for themselves quit yet.
I’m never the one to knock someone’s hustle, but when you have a love for music and the entertainment business like I do you can’t help but to see things from a professional eye.
Until, recently I thought Mix-CDs were cool and that mix-CDs from well known DJs actually help to promote upcoming Artist which is the blood line of the Music Industry. This thought process was factitious. Mix-CDs equate to piracy which is basically taking food out of the mouths of Entertainment professionals (Artist, Music executives, Music Attorneys, Directors, Engineers, and more). Piracy has a trickle down effect people.
The follow information was retained from The Recording Industry Association of America website:
One credible analysis by the Institute for Policy Innovation concludes that global music piracy causes $12.5 billion of economic losses every year, 71,060 U.S. jobs lost, a loss of $2.7 billion in workers' earnings, and a loss of $422 million in tax revenues, $291 million in personal income tax and $131 million in lost corporate income and production taxes. For copies of the report, please visit www.ipi.org.
As an Indie Label Owner/Producer and more…It is sad to say but those who support Mix-CDs are really getting a bum deal. Yeah, you think you’re getting more for your money but actually what you are doing is creating an industry that forces you to follow what ever they put in your face…hint, hint. Kind of like how the American Government dictates what we eat, see, and pay for.
Piracy kills New Music, New films, and New Talent. It is like killing and eating a baby chicken before it matures…You will not get the full satisfaction from the meal and eventually chickens will become extinct if they are not allow to mature and reproduce.
If people want to enjoy the pleasure that music brings, it will be important for them not to support Piracy. For those who are interested in the Entertainment Industry is even more important to put a stop to Piracy by any means necessary. Piracy is just another form of Laziness…For those people who I will not identify which have been put down, segregated, ridicule, and falsely accused of being lazy; it is you who are crippling your own success if in fact you support Piracy via Mix-CDs, Bootleg Movies, and etc.
I know it takes time to read, but the information is out there to do things the right way. Please run your business like it’s your business…Stop supporting Piracy
The Daily Preezie Baby!
Helpful links: http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php Nielson SoundScan Copyrights.gov
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