Would you steal $7,290 from a starving musician? Most people would not.
But according to "Arthmetic Piracy" (exercise on p. 4 of You Shall Not Steal in our "Head to the Heart" confirmation curriculum) that's how much it cost the artist when your kid pirates one song. The average pirated song is "shared" and reburned on 1,458 disks.
This is found in a formula called Geometric Progression. (See Wikipedia)
Info thanks to your buddy Art Stees
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c69d153ef012875bcf73f970c
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference It's Only One Song... One Stolen Song:
This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.
As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.
Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.
I'd like to see the basis upon which Art Stees makes that point! I have lots of reasons to object to it. I'm fine with helping parents help their kids to acquire music ethically, but in the process we ought ALSO to be teaching them something about the history and ethics of copyright -- which in the US right now is woefully misunderstood. And I'd like to refer people to the WCC document "Love to Share" which gets at theological questions around music and copyright (http://www.feautor.org/id/12060144352).
Posted by: Mary Hess | December 15, 2009 at 03:56 PM