Chris Brooks: I won't teach you if you burn discs of illegal downloads.

This is the real pain of P2P and illegal file sharing. Interesting to see what happens to limewire and their court case.

Chris Brooks Just had to fill in 3 pain in the ass forms to have my music removed from illegal download services. What a pain!

Chris Buchli I showed one of your songs to a student the other day and he goes "is it on limewire?". I had to give him the 'this music does not make itself' spiel.

People don't seem to understand how this affects artists who do this for a living!

Chris Brooks Your student sucks.

Eric Maldonado I am so sorry you have to go through that man, you should be selling thousands of copies a day. Instead, jerks put it on limewire and stupid torrent files. You deserve so many more buys and fans. I think you are the next Satriani or Vai! :)

Chris Brooks Thanks Eric!

Chris Johnstone Yeh I give all my students an earful too but they just don't get it......

Even an artist like Brett Garsed wonders whether doing another project is really worth it.....kids just think that if you have an album out then you are a billionare.......

The music industry has really changed, but I sorta don't mind cause I by all my stuff direct from the artist, and if everyone else did the same that would be ideal..........

Chris Brooks Yeah, at one point I even went as far as telling my guitar kids that I wouldn't teach them from burnt discs of illegal downloads. Their impression was that their idiot parents only paid for music because they didn't know how to use the internet.

Rick Graham Really? Holy shit that does not bode well for the future especially for independent artists. When I was a kid I used to religiously save up my pocket money to go and buy music I wanted. The whole process of it from saving up to getting the vinyl home and on the record player was a great experience. I think education (or failing that a few fatal beatings) is in order for this new generation.

Chris Brooks Yeah, you're REALLY gonna have to watch your back with this stuff Rick. There's only so much you can do when it's p2p but the torrent sites seems fairly amiable when it comes to removing you from their listings. The sites I had to tackle today were some torrent sites and MegaUpload. One of them has already removed it so YAY for me.

Rick Graham Nice one Chris, glad you're getting it sorted. Thanks for the heads up too. It's hard enough with multiple companies taking a massive cut from CD sales never mind spotty little kids who hand out your music for free.
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