Beyonce probably has that look on her face in the picture above after finding out the news that her newest album has been illegally downloaded 240,000 times and she lost $3.8 million in record sales. The only reason that downloading music for free is illegal ’cause it loses the record industry money. The industry can do all their best to fight illegal downloading but it’s never going away. Illegal downloading will just keep getting bigger. They can sue people all they want to and they can come up with all kinds of crazy technology to help stop it but no matter what they do, they’ll never conquer illegal downloading. Pirates will always find their way around it.

I don’t see how downloading free music hurts the industry as it doesn’t make any sense to me. I think there will be a time where the music industry will turn into a free market whenver the industry can’t do anything to stop illegal downloading. The time will come. Maybe not now but someday the industry will allow bands/artists to sell their albums at any price of their choosing whether free or not. That’s what a lot of local/indie bands are doing these days, right?

These artists should feel flattered if these pirates admire them and love them. Like with the Iron Maiden thing… illegal downloading will help boost ticket sales to concerts. Illegal downloading is not all bad… there are pros and cons with that stuff.

Early album leaks and illegal downloads are still a huge problem in the industry.  That is just proof alone that people believe in a free music market. I don’t listen to Beyonce’s music… I’m not a fan and hate her but I just wanted to speak my mind about this one.

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Kev