Sharing Is Caring

Splendid stuff from the peerless TorrentFreak, in an interview with a UK musician : “Let’s consider this more closely - a person who values our music has kindly made a copy of a CD and gone out of their way to spread the word about us. That recipient has then bought both a ticket to see us and a CD on the night.” So it’s obvious that being a pirate doesn’t exclude people from being a fan, they just aren’t paying at the point of piracy - but they will, when the circumstances are right.  Steve also believes that ’sharing’ really is ‘caring’, which is refreshing in these ’sue-em-all’ days: “You may call this process ‘piracy’ if you wish - for me it is an act of generosity and it both increases our audience size and record sales. And as I always say on the night - if you’re going to do it anyway you may as well feel good about it!”