record industry bosses over school anti-piracy lessons

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The record industry was under fire last night after launching a scheme to teach primary schoolchildren – possibly as young as five – not to illegally download music from the internet.
Lessons teaching pupils about copyright law are already being piloted in six schools and could be rolled out across the country.
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then you have the likes of lily allen, who said years ago she downloaded music from the internet etc... and thought it was fine, now she is totally against it, what a hypocrite

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...essons-children-young-five.html#ixzz0Sy7YozWU
 
Education i guess in principal would be a good idea though wouldn't it? - as long as its not all, downloading is bad, you will go to hell, ect ect..?
 
I don't think anyone has a problem with paying the artists. It's just nobody wants to pay the over inflated prices of the money grabbing, manipulative, talent stifling dinosaurs.
 
No, because a large proportion of those illegally downloading don't want to pay anything. Legal music is hardly expensive, so claiming people are unwilling to pay for it suggests that it's more a case of it being even better if it's free.


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Too many people seem to be growing up today under the impression that downloading/pirating music is normal and not wrong at all... I'm often shocked just how many people genuinely have no understanding of copyright at all... so in practise I'm all for educating them at an early age...


But piracy itself is an entirely different matter... given that the music industry is as much thieving scum as the freeloaders its not like they can take any moral high ground with any credibility...
 
Legal music is expensive to someone who likes to have a large collection, even I think its expensive and I'm not exactly short on disposable income... spotify helps to ease that a bit.

However there are a good number of people who seem to think they have a god given right to download music for free... and personally I despise them... however I have no moral problem with anyone who downloads based on (lack of) availability... its business pure and simple in my books.
 
Don't despise those people, most likely there would be little to no download services without them.
 
Would rather the kids were taught financial skills - how to run a bank account, etc, instead of reactionary lies about theft - because that's how the music industry rants about piracy. Additionally in 10 years time what will the music be like? I don't know either. I really like Spotify, and if that continues then perhaps there won't be any need to buy music.
 
Thing is, I want to listen to music I enjoy because it stimulates me and ultimately I enjoy it. To then be told I am not allowed to listen to this music because I can't afford it is....well, ridiculous? I'm all for paying artists for their work and completely against giving my money to thieving record labels. However, even if all my money went to the artist, it still wouldn't stop me pirating the music. What am I expected to do? Not listen to the music until I can afford to buy it, at which point I have now spent my money on it and have to hold off listening to another artists music before I can purchase that too? Ridiculous. Why are they making music in the first place? To send out a message, to convey emotion and feeling? - at least this is what I thought it was about, so why does making people who enjoy your music, pay for it, matter more than allowing them to enjoy it? It's nice when you see an artist who actively encourages people to download their music simply because they want people to enjoy it.
 
Cybermyk said:
I don't think anyone has a problem with paying the artists. It's just nobody wants to pay the over inflated prices of the money grabbing, manipulative, talent stifling dinosaurs.
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This.

The problems been rife for years and it all lies with the major record companies. They would often sign bands during trend phases to contracts that give the bands little to no profit whilst the company takes all the royalties. Unfortunately these trends have broken in to the contracts of mainstream artists, and when their pay cheque comes up a little short they choose to attack the people they are producing the music for, rather than the people who are making money from their product.

Just look at mainstream pop today. How many artists have one big hit and fade in to obscurity? How many of these acts denounce piracy? For me there needs to be a fairer system within contracts, however too many people are hungry for fame. If one person rejects the conditions on the paper, another person will likely be around the corner waiting to sign their name.
 
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