Brazilian Pop Music Scene Thrives on Piracy 211
langelgjm writes "When people talk about the failing business model of the traditional record company, they often only offer vague suggestions as to how things would work otherwise. But a concrete example of a music scene that thrives on piracy is to be found in Brazil, in the form of tecnobrega. From the article: 'While piracy is the bane of many musicians trying to control the sale of their songs, tecnobrega artists see counterfeiters as key to their success ... Ronaldo Lemos, a law professor at Brazil's respected Getulio Vargas Foundation, an elite Rio de Janeiro think tank and research center, says tecnobrega and other movements like it represent a new business model for the digital era, where music is transformed from a good to a service.'"
Welcome to 2006 (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Welcome to 2006 (Score:3, Informative)
Documentary "Good Copy Bad Copy" (Score:1, Informative)
covered the Brazilian tecno brega movement and other examples of using digital content that are not necessary legal according to the Mega Corporations of content creation. Techno brega uses alot of sampling from major recording industry material. Tecno Brega artists give their content to bootleggers to distribute throughout Brazil. The artists themselves make no money from these CD sales instead they make money by throwing parties and burning recordings of their events to people who attend.
Thepiratebay link to a torrent download of this Documentary [thepiratebay.org] (Note this torrent is legal and the Documentary makers on their website which I linked to above created this torrent)
Streaming Flash Clip of the same Documentary from Blip.tv [goodcopybadcopy.blip.tv]
Re:Yes, actually. The cat does "got my tongue." (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Brazilian Pop Music Scene Thrives on Piracy (Score:2, Informative)
Good stuff in these websites make me want more, make me want to know the artist behind them. Lately I was chatting with "Varios Um", a Brazilian artist which has very good FREE songs published here [estudiolivre.org].
Re:Brazilian Pop Music Scene Thrives on Piracy (Score:3, Informative)
I do. I would rather buy music on a one-song basis from iTunes but due to this widespread piracy here, Apple doesn't seem to give a shit about Brazil.
Trash music is everywhere. It is hard to listen to good music nowadays, be it in the radio, the clubs, or the stupid loud car sound systems around the city.
Why is that? Maybe it has to do with the music industry being overwhelmed by these favela freeloader fuckers with no music talent but with a beat box and the street commerce that is driving artists to a difficult situation, while the very good Brazilian music people enjoy from London to Tokyo is having a hard time just surviving. Tom Jobim (the guy who wrote "The Girl from Ipanema") used to complain that an artist could never get filthy rich in Brazil, even though even Frank Sinatra recorded The Girl From Ipanema and Bossa Nova plays worldwide daily on thousands of radios ever since the late 50's.
Musicians get almost nothing selling CDs by normal means (recorder company contracts etc), if you're not a TOP 20 you make more money with shows/presentations anyway, making it very good to spread your music - the more the better
The music industry's to blame here. I remember back in the 90's when Real had dollar-parity, CDs here cost the double what they would cost me in New York. Now the cancer has spread and there's no stopping it.
Streets of Brazil are overwhelmed with street vendors ("camelôs") who pay no taxes and sell pirate products.
Yeah. Brazil's the future. You wanna see how bad it gets you just look at what's going on here.
Not piracy (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Brazilian Pop Music Scene Thrives on Piracy (Score:2, Informative)
Oh, yeah, absolutely. Crime rate is sky-high in Brazil (as always) and hijacking truck loads is a very common crime. So, with all probability, that guy was dealing stolen goods - not only pirated. Often, the truck driver pays with his life (this type of story is always on the 6 o'clock news). That's how sick this thing gets.
Sometimes you see street vendors selling a whole line of, e.g., Johnson & Johnson's cosmetic line dirt cheap. Where did he get it from? From the mafias that steal transport firms.
So you are a witness to how debased this piracy business gets. Now I get to read on Slashdot about US Americans fascinated by a shitty music market that is so poor that they don't even try to sell their records and have to churn out 400 'albums' a year just to put food on the table.
People, get real. Pirate Bay is is Sweden. Tecnobrega is in Brazil.
LOL.