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To anyone who pirates music: SCREW YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD!

posted 12 years ago by Moe_J
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This documentary is about the dark truth of music piracy. Look at Rodriguez, an innocent and very talented musician who lives in a rundown house in a 3rd world city called Detroit. And despite his rising popularity he still can't afford to live elsewhere. Why? As the daughter said, "Piracy". So next time when you want to download an album or song illegally, think of what happens to that artist and how he/she, too, will end up like Rodriguez because of it.

[–] eggba 12 years ago

You must be joking...

[–] starkistuna 12 years ago

If it werent for piracy you wouldny have seen this film , and he would still be unknown, funny about the record company man how he talks about his top 5 memorable artists.

Bet he wasnt thinking of him when checks came in the mail.

[–] goreflesh 12 years ago

A study showing those that use P2P file sharing buy more than 30% more music than non P2P users.

https://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-30-more-music-than-non-p2p-peers-121015/

[–] Felix-La-PuBelle 12 years ago

There's a crushing amount of irony in your post.

I also think you maybe need to see the film again to understand it all.

[–] TheCineSinge 12 years ago

You say ending up like Rodriguez is a bad thing.

In fact, you're saying if you don't make money out of releasing music it's a bad thing - and while I'm speaking about such may I direct you in the way of the great Ravi Shankhar.

Anyway, Rodgriguez seems perfectly happy with his life, he didn't care about the fame and that's half the point of the film but you're looking down on him, where he lives, how he lives and judging him despite him being pretty content with what he has.

Just because his lifestyle doesn't live up to your almighty standards doesn't mean it's bad.

SCREW YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD!

And on an additional point, if it weren't for piracy in the early era of cinema, we would never be able to watch the genius and magic of Georges Mélies as the vast majority of his films were destroyed and melted down/

[–] RMario9 12 years ago

He may not have cared about wealth, but you could see him light up when he was playing for his fans, he felt like he had come home, and sadly he was screwed out of that too! But I won't say it was due to piracy as much as greedy record executives

[–] ribinfo 12 years ago

almost all artist make very little off of albums sales any more.its because of all the illegal downloading.most artist make they're money from touring.which i heard he makes quite bit just from doing a few shows.and then he gives pretty much all of it away to his friends and family.and if you paid attention to the documentary he lived in that "Rundown House" for 40 years because he likes it.i recently heard he is renovating it as well

http://www.instagc.com/30863
http://www.earnthemost.com/126606

[–] ThrowingChicken 12 years ago

His daughter was speculating, but based on the rest of documentary and Rodriguez's wiki page, piracy had very little to do with his economical status. Piracy/bootlegging is what got him famous in South Africa, but he got screwed along the way by the labels. For 4 decades someone cashed in on the fame the piracy gave Rodriguez, making profits on over a million SALES (sales, as in people bought his music, not downloaded for free or burned CDs) that Rodriguez didn't see a dime of.

[–] NotAnUndercoverCop 12 years ago

Wow, you actually believed that little tid bit comment from the daughter at the end of the film there? You did hear the part where they said he SOLD albums. They were asking where THAT money went to. Nobody said a god damn thing about piracy. How can people pirate music from an artist they've never heard of? Where he was popular, South Africa, he sold records. No piracy, dumb *beep*.