How embarrassing to be caught........

Sharing Andrew Lloyd Webber Tunes over P2P by Davenport Lyons. I'd pay the £500 no quibble, much less shameful to be accused of sharing Army Bum F......... (you know the rest)

Said it before...

... and I'll say it again.

Prove to me that the "losses" due to online piracy are genuine losses. How can you prove that these people would have bought the genuine article if piracy was not an option? I seriously doubt you can.

Move on and adapt. Like Spotify. People want the perception of free and easy downloads, so give it to them and find a different way of making money. The old concept of paying of a physical product is dead.

The good that can come out of this is that artists get frustrated by their revenue from the "Industry" and may seek alternative options through independent sources. Many are doing this already, and are finding they get a much greater slice of the pie also.

The real pirates are the big studios and labels who rip off the consumer, rip off the artists, and then complain when people try to rip them off.

i have read no further than

Musical theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd-Webber has railed against ISPs in the House of Lords for profiting from internet piracy,

Because here is another twat talking bollocks

I dont know anybody who has signed up for internet to download films specifically.

ISP dont profit from piracy it actually causes a strain on their infrastructure. But if they agree to regulate it they then become responsible for the content making them liable,

I would never put myself in that position. Especially if i knew that 90% of the traffic will be almost impossible to stop without Major Disruption to all services and cost millions

Is it that hard for limelight Celeb Smaktards to understand.

pah

Fuck off Webber.

Quick everyone! Stop the development of the UK's internet infrastructure, Andrew Lloyd-Webber's business model can't cope with people being able to share data!

Strapline

May I be the first to congratulate you on that great strapline - assuming you didn't nick it from somewhere of course!

I didnt think the over 70 demographic into P2P so whats he worrying about ?

the wierd faced freak is probably upset that nobody is sharing his bland, obvopus saccharin sweet pap.

Yeah it's obvious that Lloyd-Webber is a strange jellyfish / alien hybrid

ALW

FFS Stick to making music.

It always seems the ones who are complaining are just pants at producing decent music.

Mines the one with a pocket full of seeds.

He's right...

...the percentage of bandwidth being sucked up by users (mainly teens) illegally downloading copies of the soundtracks to Joseph, Phantom of the Opera and Cats is simply staggering!! Something must be done!

Musical Decline

I didn't switch from commercial music to piracy, I simply stopped buying new music because of the shocking lack of talent and originality in the industry. I agree wholeheartedly that the film industry will suffer the same fate because they are suffering the same problem. Every second song is a cover or remix and every second film is a remake or adaptation from a comic or book.

Mine's the one with "K.I.G's other song is also a rehashed nursery rhyme" written on the back.

Yada, yada, yada.....

"He could foresee a situation in a decade’s time when there would be virtually no orchestral film work. Illegal downloading would so decimate the film industry that orchestral recording sessions would be a thing of the past. In this connection I was reminded that three of London’s main orchestral recording studios have closed since 2000" - How many top 10s did they have? Nobody cares about classic anymore! Every 12 year old wants the collected works of the masters... Twat!

"My sole objective is to draw noble Lords’ attention to the cataclysmic consequences for all the creative industries if this area remains unregulated." Your sole objective is to earn the ******** from the ******** industry! It already is regulated...Twat.

“the digital economy underpins our whole economy and builds our national competitiveness”. - so we have more people managing bigger networks to download more instead of playing a violin and thinking that they should be paid as much as a heart surgeon.

"No, not when there are no longer shops selling the physical products and when the internet has become a sort of Somalia of unregulated theft and piracy." So ban e-commerce as well?

"But, as we have seen throughout history, and recently in the financial markets, there are dire consequences when people drift down the path of unregulated behaviour." Time for the Clown to start turning us into a Stalinist state and monitoring everything that we do...

What do you mean they do already?

Who's that at the door?

Be right back....................

I can't stand Lloyd Webber

Why did they pick such an unctious person as their spokesman? Alongside John Birt as well. It's like they want people to rip off the music industry.

Note to music industry: send someone sexier next time.

That point Lloyd Webber makes about delaying investment in faster broadband. Way to win everyone over, nobhead.

and yet he says he has no alternative solution

well kindly shut up then Mr Lloyd Webber.

The music industry has no-one but itself to blame... SOoooo many tech firms big and small have tried to help them into the 21st century, all to be pushed away by their greed.

Besides, if i download the sound track to 'Phantom of the Opera', doesn't that increase my likelihood to go and spend the 50 quid plus for a theatre ticket....

How about some reasonable attitudes from 'rights holders'.

ALW is hardly likely...

to be suffering much in the way of revenue loss to "illegal file sharing", I'd have thought

Andrew LLoyd W***er

"Musical theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd-Webber has railed against ISPs in the House of Lords for profiting from internet piracy and urged the government to clamp down hard."

How clueless is that?

What next? Claiming BT are guilty of aiding and abetting because they allow crooks to plan their next blag on the telephone? Claiming the Post Office are profiting from crime because they don't do anything to stop stolen goods from being mailed? Or perhaps he would like to accuse the PO of profiting from terrorism when animal rights nutters send letter bombs?

What a completely and utterly clueless *tit*!

But then what do you expect from a twunt who can see nothing absurd with sitting on a throne while taking part in an abysmal TV talent show.

Copyright holder

Suing people is unpopular and expensive but as the copyright holder he's the one responsible for enforcement action. As a non copyright holder I have no interest in my money being used to protect his copyrights, it's his problem not mine.

If he wants me to help pay to protect his copyright then I want unlimited useage rights to the material I'm paying to protect. Fair is fair after all! Ok, so I almost feel sorry for any poor bastard forced to listen to (as Rowan Atkinson once put it) "Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest rearrangement of Mendelsohn's Greatest Hits" but that doesn't negate the point. They're his rights, it's up to him to protect them not me.

Silly man

I work in ALW's field of expertise - musical theatre - and piracy isn't hurting us in the slightest. In fact, it's beneficial to our industry. As people spend less on cinema and recorded music, they are spending more on live music and live theatre.

We do get the occasional pirate recordings of concerts and shows, but if anything they drive more custom; a poorly filmed recording of Phantom of the Opera from a hand-held camera in the wings is never going to be as similar to the real experience as a pirated film is.

Frankly, I don't know what he's complaining about. Of course he gets massive royalties from CDs and DVDs, but with his various TV shows, live shows and new scripts, he's not exactly struggling.

Hmm

I always thought that ISP's don't like P2P, it consumes a lot of bandwidth, which ultimately the ISP\s have to pay for.

Is the argument that people only join ISP's to download wares, hence ISP's are making revenue on people who otherwise wouldn't be on the internet (obviously they're not there for the other wonderful uses of the internet, Facebook, porn, email, wikipedia and myspace ;)?

I think the logic here is somewhat flawed, much like the argument that someone downloading an album they wouldn't buy is costing the record company money (there is still however a morality argument to be had for sure, and the fact that by downloading from p2p, they are perhaps facilitating someone who may have paid for it to download it that little bit faster). While it's dangerous to make assumptions, and generalisations. I'm sure ISP's would like to not pay for p2p traffic and people pay for internet connections for things other than wares.

Fat cats want to get even fatter

Millionaire Lloyd-Webber wants more millions. In other news Fred Goodwin is lobbying for tax breaks for pensioners...

Lloyd-Webber's a twat

"Proposing to legislate to require ISPs merely to write to infringers and leave rights-holders with the near impossible, deeply expensive and hugely unpopular task of suing those who persist is simply not going to produce the required deterrent effect," he said.

Darn right eh Andrew!

Let's just cut to the chase and have them all shot!

OK?

Pfffttt!!

Who'd pirate his music anyway?

People will continue to pirate music one way or the other. Slapping down filesharing will, like the IWF kiddieporn blacklist, simply move people onto other methods and those who are determined to make money from it from selling pirated CDs and DVDs down at the market or car boot will not be put off by any internet restrictions.

Also none of these people ever ask why people pirate and why the music industry has problems.

People will pirate stuff if they feel they are being over charged. This is why companies like Play.com do such a good business because they are cheap. Some people might still think paying 31p per minute for a 46 year old record is "good value" but most people wont.

The other reason the music industry has is that frankly most of its output is shit and often the only good tracks on an album are the ones released as singles. So people wont go out and spend £15 on a CD only to find that its only got a couple of good tracks on it.. they've been burned too often by that now to be taken in.

So people go onto the torrents and they download the CD and find that, yes, most of the album is shit and not worth the money they would have paid for it.

wah wah!

"and leave rights-holders with the near impossible, deeply expensive and hugely unpopular task of suing those who persist is simply not going to produce the required deterrent effect"

...er... it's copyright, you tosspot - that's how it works. Just because you a) can't find anyone to sue for downloading your music but b) feel like you should be doing something, doesn't mean that the government has any right to step in to do it for you.

Go back to Royston Vasey!

Blame the messenger!

Why should ISPs have to do the policing? They're just an easy target for the neanderthal record industry. Would they ask blank CD manufacturers to block the use of CDs for filesahring? Would they expect the Royal Mail to inspect every postal packet for copyright infringing CDs, MDs, cassettes, etc.?

Yeah right Lloyd-Webber...

... that's the reason you're not getting any royalties - everybody is stealing your music.

Keep telling yourself that.

The real reason you aren't getting any royalties is your music is plagarised and trite.

For Fuck's Sake

Here we go again, another multi-millionare still not getting enough and it's sombody elses

fault Waaaaaaaaahhhh!!! Waaaaggghhhh it's all the ISPs fault, they are not protecting interests

Gary Rhodes is closing his Dublin restaurant, Antony Worrall Thompson has had to put his company into administration, making 60 staff redundant, Gordon Ramsay is closing one of his restaurants, Paul Rankin has closed his only restaurant in Ireland as well. And there are many more restaurants that have closed that nobody ever hears about because hey are not owned by somebody famous.

However, has anyone heard one of these celebrity chefs complain that home cooking is destroying the restaurant industry? No, because that have a brain and they realise that it is the ECONOMY that’s causing the downturn in business. The copyright mafia need to Adapt or Die, hopefully they will die, and they won’t be missed.

Has Mr inside-out face had his head stuck up his own arse for past couple of years, there's a recewssion you pillock, that's why nobody is buying your music. PS, its a bit crap anyway

Perspectives

It's all a matter of perspectives. Lloyd Webber is miffed because he earns royalties from so many artists - he's earning from artists as diverse as Deep Purple, Elvis Presley not to mention his own work's extensive discography

If the music industry invested in staying ahead of the technology then there would be no problem. But the fact is that the product has not changed at all in living memory. It may be distributed on a different medium - but in essence, it's the same old 2 track Stereo audio. The movie industry uses sound technologies that are streets ahead of the music industry.

Indeed the software industry and game industry (also media providers just like the music industry) keep on evolving their products - to build up an excitement.

There may be excitement when the next big band comes out - but at the end of the day they are not really doing anything different.

To me, in the modern world, an Album is merely an advertisment for a musical artists. I will pay top dollar to go and see me favourite artists live. Indeed, I would identify a west end musical as good value for money for people who want to go.

The music industry should be capitalising on the back of the fact there are millions of people downloading music adverts for theire artists everyday. If they gave away the music and weren't so precious about trying to charge people money for listening to the antiquated 2 track technology then they would notice that they could be raking it in from all the other mediums presented.

But instead, they get there dinosaurs to come up with a policy that counters everything the information age is all about.

If the music industry thinks that today's generation are just going to start paying for albums - they are mistaken in most cases.

I am a music lover - in a pre-internet world my income dictated that I could may be an album every other month. There is too much else to spend your money on these days- and on that basis, the music industry will not increase it's revenue no matter what draconian measures are taken. I'll just play more games, or watch more movies - or listen to the countless unsigned artists on the internet that are ignored by the music industry and give away their music anyway in a effort to get noticed.

And here's the rub - they don't bloody deserve to be in business anyway. I was in a commercial band in London - and I can confirm first hand that Hunter S Thompson's famous quote still rings true: "The music business is a cruel and shallow money pit, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs".

Song and dance

Trust Andrew Lloyd-Webber to make a song and dance about it; let's just be thankful he isn't putting it on the West End and charging us for the 'pleasure' - yet.

On a more serious note, how does the creator of shite musicals manage to get a seat in the House of Lords - he must have made some serious donations.

Modern Tech increases sales

I can honestly say that I have bought far more music from iTunes than I ever would have if it wasn't available.

New model : I hear a song, I like a song i splash out the 99p to buy the song. If I'm watching a TV program and they have some music on I like but don't recognise, I "Shazam" it and then maybe watch the you tube video (if it hasnt been pulled to "protect" the rights holder) and then I splash out the 99p to buy it.

Old model, I hear a song and wonder if the other 9 or 10 on the album are going to be any good, good enough to justify buying an album, figure that nah, probably 1 or two good songs and 8 to 10 filler tracks so I dont buy anything

Close the door behind you, your lordship

Lloyd Webber is a dinosaur.

The recording industry only ever existed in the first place because they had access to a technology that, at the time, was not available to all. All that changed forever in 1995 with the advent of the CD-R, and the old recording industry is now unsustainable. Just like you can't sustain an industry around the business model of fitting paraffin lamps to horse-drawn carts. The makers of horse-drawn carts probably campaigned against the motor car, and the makers of paraffin lamps almost certainly campaigned against electrification, but it didn't help them and it won't help these dinosaurs.

Frankly, I don't give a flying one if the industry does go tits up. It's all boy bands, girl bands, effing/blinding/glorifying violence and former minimum-wage slaves from towns you've never heard of who "won" rigged TV talent shows anyway. What's left will be all about the music, not the money.

Why the fugg...

...are our elected leaders even wasting our time and money looking at ways to screw us over?

'the government's proposed regime to discourage illegal file-sharing will not achieve its aim of reducing such activity by 70 per cent by 2012'

Is Gordon Brown trying to be a 21st century Canute? (Olde English v. being, I believe, the strangely appropriate Cnut...)

Tougher laws aimed at pirate bay have just led to the availability of p2p vpn tunelling.

Why is that purveyor of blue-rinse balladeering even given a job in the lords?

It's always the long-established, vested-interest types who whinge about the harm being done by p2p, usually the ones with the largest pots of gold. IP laws breed greed and laziness and protect the creatively redundant, they DO NOT engender creativity; that happens naturally in hungry noobs.