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Statistics that Spain has a special problem of piracy are known to be fabricated by RIAA's cousin. But are also supported by a 15 minute conversation with anyo
by lemming 15y ago
Statistics that Spain has a special problem of piracy are known to be fabricated by RIAA's cousin.
But are also supported by a 15 minute conversation with anyone who lives here - piracy is utterly rampant to a degree I've never seen anywhere else. I was shocked when I came here.
- narag 15y agoOh, please, if you accept that stats are fabricated, how can you defend such an anecdotic "evidence"? That's been a lie that everybody has come to believe after mass media has been uncritically funneling SGAE's propaganda.
- lemming 15y agoI didn't say I accept that the stats are fabricated - I don't know. I'm quite sure that the SGAE are totally corrupt, but equally I'm sure that piracy is rampant here to a degree I have never seen anywhere else (I've lived in Spain for 6 years BTW). My friends never buy any music and generally joke about how much they pirate. I know a lot of people from different walks of life and this is totally widespread in my experience. You can write it off as anecdotal if you like (or you could provide some stats to the contrary) but I'm sure it's true.
- ghostDancer 15y agoAnd the same organization that says that about piracy , the SGAE, has increased its income every year, and this last year the managers have been taken to jail because they stole a lot of money and instead of giving it to the authors they were supposed to help they put it in their own fake businesses.Piracy is no bigger than in any other part but in Spain the little brothers of RIAA and company have been lying a lot through all the media till the point that a lot of people even believe it.