Saturday, June 20, 2009

Shiver Me Timbers! Creativity's Alive and Thriving

I don't approve of pirating music. I think songwriters, publishers and artists should be compensated for mechanical copies of their work. Technology makes pirating easy, but it hasn't made it ethical. So when friends offer to burn copies of CDs for me, I say, "Thanks, but no thanks."


Enjoying the view from my high moral ground, I really wanted to believe that piracy was detrimental to the music business. But I was wrong. Again. It's OK - I've gotten used to it.


Interesting story on the rampant creativity in the music industry since the advent of music piracy, from a study done by Harvard Business School

click here: Creativity and Music Piracy.

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