Music piracy: number of tracks illegally downloaded in UK falls by a third

IvaBigWun

I wonder if the next new stats will show a similar trend here

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/sep/12/music-piracy-tracks-illegally-downloaded

Do you still download music illegally?

Ted_YNWA

Of course not Mr Sherlock

Fr_Dougal

Not as much, because I've downloaded most of the music I want to listen to. Most new music is schite.

MadYaker

I think spotify and other free streaming sites are probably responsible for this.

The Backwards Man

IvaBigWun wrote: »

I wonder if the next new stats will show a similar trend here

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/sep/12/music-piracy-tracks-illegally-downloaded

Do you still download music illegally?

Na, I use Spotify mostly. Quick, clean and cheap, better than pirating any day of the week.

Sh1tbag OToole

I have nearly all the music I need now and I suspect so does everyone else. Also everything is on youtub now. Occasionally I will still download the odd torrent but its mostly obscure stuff.

A while back I started up gtk-gnutella just for old time sake, got a frickin sherlock letter in the door from Eircon!

IvaBigWun

Some terrible typos in the poll options which are now uneditable. Thats what I get for multi-tasking.

Shout Dust

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

I have nearly all the music I need now and I suspect so does everyone else. Also everything is on youtub now. Occasionally I will still download the odd torrent but its mostly obscure stuff.

A while back I started up gtk-gnutella just for old time sake, got a frickin sherlock letter in the door from Eircon!

What do you have to do to get a letter from Eircom, or how do they decide who to warn?

I've been downloading heavily enough while on eircom for the last 6 months, nothing yet, although know mates who have.

As regards op, still download music, pay for the odd track. Download some TV and films, have Netflix as well but the choice isn't great, although Breaking Bad makes up for it

MadYaker

Spotify premium is great. The quality is excellent.

bnt

Well, once you've got all the good music, who needs any more? They aren't making any more these days.

NegativeCreep

I download everything illegally on a daily basis. Mad I am.

Tigger

i assume its because people have moved on to less quantifiable methods

Michael D Not Higgins

I haven't downloaded music in a long time. I bought Queens of the Stone Age's album recently and Alt J's and Bloc Party's albums earlier in the year but that's all I've gotten this year so far. I have so little time for new music these days. It's sad becoming a real grown up.

hmmm

Spotify has killed piracy for anyone with a bit of money. Until inevitably the music companies get greedy and force them to increase their monthly prices and we'll be back to square one.

Sh1tbag OToole

Shout Dust wrote: »

What do you have to do to get a letter from Eircom, or how do they decide who to warn?

I've been downloading heavily enough while on eircom for the last 6 months, nothing yet, although know mates who have.

As regards op, still download music, pay for the odd track. Download some TV and films, have Netflix as well but the choice isn't great, although Breaking Bad makes up for it

Use something ancient like Gnutella based program and share a few Big Label tunes, maybe a few thousand of them for a few weeks.

Nobody uses those anymore for anything serious. 99% of the search queries I saw coming in were for child porn. Before the letter even arrived I stopped using it cause the nostalgia wore off and I dont want to be wasting good bandwidth helping people get their fix of child porn

IvaBigWun

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

A while back I started up gtk-gnutella just for old time sake, got a frickin sherlock letter in the door from Eircon!

They can legally do that nonsense?

I thought Pirate Bay was the only one they banned?

Hank Scorpio

Can you download the stuff off spotify too or just stream it? Ahem, Legally

The Backwards Man

nuxxx wrote: »

Can you download the stuff off spotify too or just stream it? Ahem, Legally

If you have the premium service (€9.99 a month) you can download to up to three devices.

Lenin Skynard

The age of paying for music has been over for a decade really. They're going to throw stats out periodically to try to convince people that it's reversing when really it isn't and never will.

biko

Is anyone else having problems downloading Taylor Swift's new album?

Sulla Felix

nuxxx wrote: »

Can you download the stuff off spotify too or just stream it? Ahem, Legally

You can stream it and use audacity and an mp3 plugin to grab the audio. It's a pretty nifty tool.

Sh1tbag OToole

IvaBigWun wrote: »

They can legally do that nonsense?

I thought Pirate Bay was the only one they banned?

Some '3 strikes' thing they brought in a while back I think. However they probably only track those ancient p2p networks and maybe the odd torrent here and there

IvaBigWun

Sulla Felix wrote: »

You can stream it and use audacity and an mp3 plugin to grab the audio. It's a pretty nifty tool.

Very nifty. Very illegal

Rothko

bnt wrote: »

Well, once you've got all the good music, who needs any more? They aren't making any more these days.

It's impossible to listen to all the good music out there.

Sh1tbag OToole

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Very nifty. Very illegal

Meh. Tis only audio, there must be tons of way to grab it in ways that don't even involve attempting to break their silly DRM (dhurum)

Suas11 wrote: »

It's impossible to listen to all the good music out there.

Even my own collection of stuff I downloaded that is only modest collection really I could sit here for forty days and nights without having to hear the same song twice

Rothko

I do download illegally but I also buy CDs when I can. I always prefer to get a physical copy of an album if possible.

Where I live, it's impossible to buy anything real so I have no choice. Buy a fake on the street or DL. Not that I really want a choice anyway.

IvaBigWun

Suas11 wrote: »

It's impossible to listen to all the good music out there.

Sometimes its hard to find all the good music amongst the sh*ite

L1011

Bought all I want of older music. There's at most two to three albums a year coming out now that I actually want and I buy them - although during the HMV-less months that meant going in to town to Tower.

Fair bit of music I want that is simply not purchasable though - a lot of early 2000s dance tracks were released on 12" only and the record label no longer exists to put them up for download. So I've got those by whatever means needed. Being on UPC means no Sherlock Letters and they've only half-assedly blocked TPB so far.

SirDelboy18

Spotify just removed the need to. All people ever wanted was a reasonably priced way to get these things without being extorted by the big companies.

With Spotify and Netflix, I'm not one bit surprised that piracy is down.

VinLieger

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SirDelboy18 wrote: »

Spotify just removed the need to. All people ever wanted was a reasonably priced way to get these things without being extorted by the big companies.

With Spotify and Netflix, I'm not one bit surprised that piracy is down.

Still not perfect having to wait months or in some cases a year for the most recent series of television is unacceptable imo. Until im given a reasonable and timely way to access my favorite shows whenever i want ill stream and download