50 Cent: Piracy ‘part of marketing a musician’
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- UK singer Lily Allen doesn’t go a whole lot on file sharing.
It’s, “not okay for British music,” she says.
“We need to find new ways to help consumers access and buy music legally, but saying file sharing’s fine is not helping anyone — and definitely not helping British music.”
But rapper Curtis Jackson — aka 50 Cent — isn’t bothered when he sees pirates off his starboard bow.
Au contraire, comfortably padded after pulling down a staggering $100 million on top of his musical earnings, he was on CNBC recently talking about his “business acumen,” says Mike Masnick on TechDirt, going on »»»
I have to admit that having three different people all trying to interview him at once is rather annoying — as they almost never let him complete a thought.
However, when they ask him about piracy, and whether or not it makes him angry (around 2 minutes), he responds that: he sees it as a part of the marketing of a musician, because “the people who didn’t purchase the material, they end up at the concert.”
He says that people can fall in love with the music either way, and then they’ll go to concerts.
“He notes that you can’t stop piracy either way, so why try to fight it?” — Masnick says, adding:
“He also talks about other business opportunities for musicians.”
definitely not helping – Lily Allen disses P2P file sharing, September 17, 2009
TechDirt – 50 Cent: Piracy Is A Part Of The Marketing, September 14, 2009
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September 17th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
how do you conduct an interview with an unintelligible monkey? the guy cant even speak english for gods sake!
heres how curtis got to be the savvy business man that he is today…write a misogynist abuse filled song about a ”trap ho”…then market the tune to cowardly white kids from the suburbs who need a gang inspired thesaraus in order to translate the cool and hip gangster slang this idiot uses in his song.
the world is full of dumb people. this retard with his 100 million dollars only proves and reinforces this sad fact.
September 17th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
i take it deadboyblues dislikes 50 cent?
i don’t like his music either but I do agree with what he said concerning piracy.
plus musicians make more from concerts than albums. the riaa make sure none of the album sales give their musicians any pocket change
September 17th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
” how do you conduct an interview with an unintelligible monkey? the guy cant even speak english for gods sake! ”
Whatever. He’s still right.
Can you dispute the facts of what he is saying ?
Can you explain how he is wrong ?
” the world is full of dumb people. this retard with his 100 million dollars only proves and reinforces this sad fact. ”
So, tell me how he is wrong, so we can see who is the dumbest.
September 18th, 2009 at 8:48 am
At least he brings some fair points, which is rare for a very rich musician. Madonna would never say anything he says.
Though we know why he’s in the industry, “Get rich or die trying”, key phrase “get rich.” It certainly is not “tell my life story through prose to a beat in hopes others may learn from my mistakes.”
September 18th, 2009 at 10:23 am
“The Emporer has no clothes” comes to mind.
September 19th, 2009 at 1:03 am
Wow. I normally laugh at anything this guy has to say, but this just raised my respect meter for him up.