Why is piracy perpetuating plastic pop?

 ‘Ever since Lars Ulrich and his band Metallica experienced a massive public backlash for suing napster, artists have been wary of speaking out against piracy.’-This shows that it is harder to get rid of piracy as no one wants to stand up about it.

‘Allen argued it was easy for them to get on the freebie bandwagon as they’d already made money from the music industry before the advent if digital piracy, but most younger would never get the chance to even make a living from music’. -Most music that is released now is released digitally such as iTunes, amazon, YouTube etc., whereas 50 years ago people had to buy it on vinyl’s and CDs so new artists will not make as much money as they could because of piracy.

Billy Corgan said ‘commerce starts at the point where people are happy with paying for something – and the fact that technology now allows people to choose not to pay for music has turned music culture into a service culture.’

This shows that artists and music industries could have made more money if piracy was not around.

‘Piracy and the unwillingness to pay for music is creating a self perpetuating conveyer belt of cookie-cutter pop stars?’-This shows that some stars can only make a certain amount of money because of piracy and when that money lowers they will not be apart of the music company and replaced by a newer version of themselves.

The key point raised by this article is that piracy is continuing ‘plastic pop’ because most people that download pirated music are younger because they often cannot afford it and it is also easier to access manufactured music whereas organic and retro songs are harder to access. I might use this notion when producing my own products by using songs that are not manufactured ‘bubble gum’ pop. Also release the songs onto vinyl or CD’s and perhaps make packages for albums to keep the retailer interested in buying it and not downloading it.