Where’s the music industry heading?
Norman Records wrote (and he’s/they’re sooo right): “…nicked from the back of a promo CD for the last Cinematic Orchestra album and I thought it was quite pertinent.
“Before you copy, burn or upload these recordings, please take a moment to think about what you’re doing and what you’re not doing. You are not “sticking it to the man”. You are not “striking a blow against outdated copyright laws.” You are not “liberating content from the corporations”. Nor are you “promoting our recordings for us.”
You are making it much harder for the musicians in Cinematic Orchestra to make anything like a living wage for creating the music which is good enough to give friends and associates. You are making it harder for an independent label like Ninja Tune to stay in Business (We’re not trying to rip anyone off, so don’t pretend we are- we split all our profits 50/50 with our artists and we put out music we believe in rather than music we just think will make the most money).
By all means pirate the latest corporate spew from major central. But don’t pretend it’s the same thing as copying this. Because, one day, when we’re all gone and all that’s left is two or three giant multinational conglomerates putting out lowest- common- denominator bollocks, you’ll wish you hadn’t- No Clicking…”
