Piracy has a huge effect on South African music,particularly hip hop music.Piracy has a huge history almost everywhere in the world.It has a long history where people in the previous years were using cassette,LP record and followed by Cd's(Compact Disk)and Flash Drives.Many people are no longer buying original Cd's because they relying on copyright Cd's which cause piracy.South African hip hop is no longer growing because of piracy.South African hip hop has many talented artists and many new comers who are expecting to get enough sales,but they failed to obtain sufficient sales because of piracy.Hip hop artist record companies in South Africa loose an estimated R500 million each year to piracy.HHP(HIP HOP PANTULA),Tuks,Teagas and new comers like Tumi,L'Tido and Morale are some of the most pirated artists in South Africa. Some of the people say that piracy will exist forever on the music industries because people are buying fake Cd's. The worst part about piracy based on music is that people are buying fake Cd's which cost them less amount,for instance,R10 Cd's instead of buying the original Cd's which will cost them a reasonable amount.I'm also agree that piracy will exist forever unless if people can stop being stingy to buy original Cd's.As an South African music fan what are you saying regarding this issue of piracy?
i was involved in such stuffs buddy, where i sold CDs with R10 to put food on the table at home. but now i am a changed man, i am a hustler
ReplyDeleteAtleast mxolisi you lead by an example unlike those who are still commiting piracy,well done mxo.
Deletethis is a serious problem faced by our local artists, in some cases you found that artists even fall down because of this piracy. CD's are no longer costing R10 but are now costing R5.
ReplyDeleteI think the police have to act mostly to those people who sells fake cds in public because this is a result of being disloyalt to Music industry.
ReplyDeleteIt is evey funny to see that SA want to end piracy, but the question is why are they allowing empty CD's to be sold what are they expecting to be in there. I think they should try to make a software that wont allow to make copies of original work without a copyright.
ReplyDeletethis problem needed to be taken in to account a long time ago before it became worst, why do our SAPS not arresting those people who sale a fake CD's known as 'maten-ten'? simply because they don't care of whether the Artist make a profit or not.
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