piracy ... whats the solution?

On 2007-04-19 15:03, exotic wrote:
I was thinking first of all what is the motive behind these groups that exist on the internet, robbing artists of their work and making it available free of cost all over the net ? isnt it to make music available to people who would rather download than pay for music because the prices of cd's are exorbitantly high? or perhaps that it is relatively hard to find in music shops in and around where they live ? if these groups didnt exist wouldnt dependant groups look for other alternatives of precuring their choice of music? which brings us to online shops the only place other than second hand shops where psychedelic trance is available. another group with vested intersts whose only motive is to drain the unsuspecting customer of all his wealth with just a single purchase. damn if you're living in india or timbuktoo , its party time for them. more postage!! i plead ignorance here but im not completely sure of who pockets this amount , the postal department or online shops and in what proportion if any ? but alas there arent too many of us who can check in at a time and check out with all we desire.

So we just curb our intincts make a couple of puchases our credit card balance can handle. and at the end of the day we're not the only ones unhappy. they feed on the apathy of the consumer who has to dish out quite a portion of his fortune on stupid postal charges as a result of the distance between the point of supply and the place of demand beacause he's a die hard collector and wants his own hard copy . They are just intermediaries (middlemen) between the artist and us.

law of demand states that other things remaining the same as price goes down demand rises . So instead why not try and make it available in the market in music shops , moderatlely price the cd's .. create awareness of the available product , and see the sea change in attitude of the end customer. I for one will anyday buy music priced at say 8- 10$ than pay 14 dollars +postage ? There are enough people in india i know who would rather download an album than go to an online shop and have their credit card at risk at such a price becuase of the unavailibilty at a decent price . paying 8$ for good music is a fair price imo and doesnt hurt nobody. This would cut piracy by atleast 50% and less artists/labels would by crying about the fact that psytrance is not a viable career option and because they end up not getting back atleast of what they expected the sales to generate quit the scene or change their style to say drum and bass or cheese trance which would fetch them more bucks. its all a vicious circle which imo needs to break and as long as this trade on the internet continues , veteran psychedelic musicians will shift to another genre which can afford them their rent.

By creating an open market with music moderately priced will do wonders for the psytrance music industry and the internet would be used less for conducting such trades and more for creating promotion and sales.