Posted May 15, 200916 yr SNOW PATROL - LIGHTBODY INVITES FANS TO PIRATE HIS http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/artic...20music_1101882 SNOW PATROL rocker GARY LIGHTBODY has blasted the prison sentence handed to Scandinavian music pirates - insisting fans are welcome to download his songs for free. The four founders of website The Pirate Bay were convicted in Sweden this month (17Apr09) and sentenced to a year in prison after they was found guilty of breaching copyright laws. They were also ordered to pay $3.48 million (£2.4 million) in damages to a number of entertainment companies whose material they pirated. Lightbody insists the sentence was too "way over the top" - and claims the music industry needs to come to terms with the fact that songs are freely available online. He says, "They shouldn't have been jailed. A year in jail for someone doing that is crazy. The punishment doesn't fit the crime. This is what we've brought on ourselves and you have to live in the society you created. Music is available to everyone if they know how to get it and I say f**king go for it."
May 15, 200916 yr Author Haha Gary you are a legend :lol: A year for pirating music wow and some people get so much less for doing so much more.
May 24, 200916 yr A year for pirating music wow and some people get so much less for doing so much more. my thoughts exactly.
May 24, 200916 yr In my opinion music should be made for much cheaper than it is. Astronomical amounts of money can only bring an artists output down, destrying it at worst and stopping it from developing at best. What does that amount of money give you in the end. Fair enough some people give to charity but we can give to them ourselves and the vast majority end up with some sort of addiction or shady connections they didn't have when they weren't as wealthy. I say fans should donate a sum they choose (e.g. Radiohead's In Rainbows). If they want our money they're gonna have to earn it! Plus it's the spirit, the people at shows, the acclaim from the audience that matters, not how much money is being made. Sharing on youtube or internet is fine - that's what music is primarily for! You can't put music out then want to keep it privately to yourself! The artists should be happy so many people are downloading their music and enjoying it (which they may not have done had they had to pay for it), whilst not giving the greedy record execs excessive amounts of money Edited May 24, 200916 yr by musicbox4249
