Swedish artists admit to using filesharing programs
More interesting news about those Swedish artists who were surveyed recently. Not only do 38% of them want filesharing to be legalized, but, get this, 59% of them admitted to using filesharing programs in the past to get ares free music downloads.
It’s not only us regular folks who get music downloads with Limewire, Ares and so on. Musicians, who you would have expected to be dead set against filesharing, actually use the technology to download MP3s.
Where does this leave the rest of us? Could musicians be prosecuted and sued for downloading their own songs or their friends’ songs? It’s a difficult situation to work out.
What would be really interesting would be a survey of American artists. Then perhaps the RIAA would start to see things differently. If those artists whom the RIAA is trying to protect actually use filesharing programs, what does this mean for the music industry as a whole?
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Good Vodka 06Apr08
Sweden being the home of The Pirate Bay, might be one of the reasons as to why these numbers are a little on the high side. And 5% admitting downloading would make me think that there are a lot more artists doing this.
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