Canada ‘flooding the US’ with illegal music
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Worst pirates ever!
(Just ask the ever-pure RIAA and MPAA.)
Says the clip on the right »»»
“Canadian pirates” Is what the music dealers called publishing houses across the line while flooding this country, they say, with spurious editions of the latest copyrighted popular songs.
They use the mails to reach purchases, so members of the American Music Publishers Association assert, and as a result the legitimate music publishing business of the United States has fallen off 50 per cent in the past 12 months.
Their investigation has revealed that all of the most popular pieces have been counterfeited, despite the fact that they are copyrighted, and by unknown publishers are sold at from 2 to 5 cents per copy, though the original compositions sell at from 20 to 40 cents per copy.
It is estimated by the publishers had fully 5,000,000 copies of songs were printed and sold in the month of May.
And we’ve probably been at it longer than anyone else.
The clip proves it.
It’s a brilliant find by BestActEver.com, and it’s from the New York Times in ‘97.
1897, that is.
Excellent!
BestActEver.com – The Long War: Music Piracy in 1897 (NYTimes), April 26, 2009
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April 28th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Nickelback, Barenaked Ladies, and Celine Dion should all have been made illegal in the first place.
April 28th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Celine Dion – sure, she should have got a pie in the face from Entartistes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entartistes
but why Barenaked Ladies?
April 28th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
We exported Celine Dion to the states. She lives in Vegas and the Americans love her.
We couldn’t take her voice here.
April 28th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
5 millions copies of printed music sold in one month? Do they really believe that there are 5 million people who can read music, let alone who would purchase musical scores?
Sounds just like Hollywood’s $17 Billion lost due to piracy in 2008.
April 28th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Grammar, please.
April 28th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
good lord go start up a torrent anywhere and what do you see , lil american flags LOL
ALSO do Canadians have high speed OR 25KBytes during the time they want ot use the net?
HRMMMM me thinks someone azzholio needs to get a screw attached to his inner ear cause he cant hear the truth.
April 28th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
WAIT
we pay a levy for what exactly…..
April 28th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Matty, you took the words right out of my mouth.
Most of the artists we hear about are manufactured artists.
I personally do not listen to the top 40 for that very reason.
None of them have any business calling them selves artists.
April 28th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Canada is Screwed!
We will never let Canada have Celine Dion back!
Sorry!
April 28th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Another BS from the master of BS!
April 29th, 2009 at 2:05 am
No mention of Nickelback? I actually dont mind them (Ducks for cover…)
April 30th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Let’s look at some of these numbers . The population listed in the 1900 US Census was 76M. Growth back then was around 1.5M per year, so that should put the 1897 population at around 71.5M. Using current demographic distributions, roughly 60% of the population is between the age of 20-65. So, let’s say there were approximately 40M potential sheet music customers at the time.
The US Census lists the number of musicians in 1910 at 139,310. I assume the census is tracking those that list music as a profession so I’m going to estimate there are 100x people for every one person that claims to be a musician. That puts us at 13M musicians (professional and amateur) … around 30% of the population at that time.
I thought the projected losses might be way out of line at 5M/month. Since their business had fallen off by 50%, that would put monthly sheet music sales at 10M/month. Maybe back then, every musician did buy a new song every month. Maybe these projections were legitimate.
Probably the most important point to take away from this is that counterfeiting only occurs when there is a financial incentive. If the sheet music could be profitably reproduced by “pirates” for 2-5 cents, that means that US publishers enjoyed a 4x-20x profit differential based on what they were selling the same sheet music for. This profit differential seems to be about in line with CD prices these days, hence the continued financial incentive for modern day counterfeiting.
Only way to curb counterfeiting is to eliminate the financial incentive. See Moser Baer’s actions in India: (http://ecophilo.blogspot.com/2008/01/moser-baer-dvds.html). They’re selling DVDs for the same price as rental DVDs. The main reason they are able to do so is because MB is a disc media manufacturer that has purchased the rights to many Indian films.
However, it is my position that the cost of reproduction when it comes to 1s and 0s is close to zero. I think that by purchasing the rights to these films in a digital world, MB has found a “value-added” way to grow their core business, selling disc media.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:33 am
Oh where screwed NOW! RIAA & MPAA be knocking people door down. OH AM SCARED US! YOU BAN CANADA ‘PHUCK OFF – GET A LIFE US’