Comments on: The Pirate Bay wins global award

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:24:27 +0000

exactly!
let’s go to kill some more music by downloading more comunism

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:51:56 +0000

Tell you what: Change your attitude towards filesharing, and then we’ll show you some sympathy. I’d really like to reach a solution where you can produce decent music, operate on a level playing field with the independents (that means no price fixing or payola), play by the rules, and make money. But that will never happen until the major record labels finally acknowledge the fact that they are no longer in control. Until they loosen their grip on culture, and give the power back to the consumers, the boycott will continue.

Remember where your money comes from. If you don’t respect your consumers, it will be your own demise.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:19:54 +0000

I’m really sad to see that some people still believe that we in the music industry are “fat cats” and that it’s multi-billion-dollar cartel. It’s far from the truth. I’m managing the creative department at one the biggest companies in our territory and I actually make below minimum wage, I could make the same money working for McDonalds. But I still keep working here since I love music! A lot of my friends has lost their jobs in the last few years, last week another big company were shut down because they couldn’t afford to keep going. All employees in five countries were laid off.

It really hurts me when people think we are just sitting around doing nothing besides counting money. We’re working really hard to bring music to all of you guys! We’re working 16 hour days many days of the week nowadays. We have to since we can no longer afford to keep all the employees we would need.

There’s a culture in the music business to pretend that all is well, that sales are still what they were in the 80’s. But this is not true, most of the old guys don’t even work in the industry anymore. We’re mostly young people working really, really hard to bring music to the world but sadly you guys don’t seem to appreciate it anymore. At least you don’t seem to think that we too should have the right to feed our families.

By: catflap

catflap — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:29:49 +0000

this type is over my head.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:12:30 +0000

Yup. ^^^

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:19:20 +0000

I believe Jon was using the content of the letter as an admission of the popularity and usability of the site. Hence the fictional award. I suppose you could view it as satirical. At least that was my impression.

By: Rez

Rez — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:12:20 +0000

sarcasm catflap

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:06:29 +0000

its no spoof or mistake, its sarcasm

btw im glad so many people are beginning to understand what The Pirate Bay is about.

By: catflap

catflap — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:32:16 +0000

i don’t get it.

what kind of an award is this that comes from IFPI but doesn’t say anything positive about pirate bay?

it makes no sense, unless it’s a spoof or a mistake.