Who to sue?
Today, when I was browsing through the weblog: http://asianfanaticfans.blogspot.com/2008/10/jay-chous-leaked-new-album-being-dealt.html, I found a very interesting news article that I think might worth our attention.
One of the latest album “Capricorn” of Jay Chou, one of the most popular singers and musicians in Taiwan, has been leaked online before its formal releasing. The record company, JVR Music, obviously got angry and announced that it was actually a case of piracy. They are going to find out who did it and will sue this sneaky guy. Meanwhile, the record company is encouraging Jay’s fans to “boycott the thieving actions of those people, and respect the intellectual properties of artists and support original music”
This article got my attention because I was wondering who the record company is going to sue. The sneaky “rat” who leak out the album, or Jay Chou’s hundreds of thousands fans who downloaded from each other’s blog, YouTube and Kugoo, and then spread the album further through social media platforms?
Who to blame? It is really like a question of the sneaky “rat”, community and technologies, who should be sued? It is up to you.
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3 Comments, Comment or Ping
Mary Janisch
Seems like this could turn out to be great publicity. It will be interesting to see whether his sales are lower or higher once the “real” album is released.
Oct 10th, 2008
Pei-chieh
Or they can publish two version of songs in the album. One for downloading, the other for sale.
Oct 11th, 2008
Yu-Hsuan
Of course, the sneaky rat should pay for its improper behavior. As to the public who download or share the unopened songs, can the JVR Music company sue all of them ? The action downloading without permission or charge is surely illegal and hurts the intelligent property of creators. To me, most of the time I see this kinds of news, I always think is it possible to develop other business models for those digital music or video providers. Frankly, you cannot ban all the downloading actions and hope this kind of illegal sharing behavior will disappear automatically. For those successful singers, album sale is only part of their income sources. They earn more money from advertising, concert, TV show, etc.
Maybe they can open their songs for free to increase their fame or popularity, then they can get more money from other sources.
Oct 14th, 2008
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