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When Metallica came to Serbia first time in 2004, James Hetfield (frontman) asked the public who has "Kill em all" album. Entire public chanted yeeaaah while 95
by grujicd 3y ago
When Metallica came to Serbia first time in 2004, James Hetfield (frontman) asked the public who has "Kill em all" album. Entire public chanted yeeaaah while 95% or probably even more of people there had only pirated version. Serbia just went through very tough decade with international isolation and there weren't any original CDs to buy even if you had the money. But guess what, 30-40k people paid the ticket for that concert. Who would be there if we didn't listened to pirated albums?
But I'm not sure pirating music is the same as for movies or software as there's no tour at the end to reap the effects of "free" advertising.
- devsda 3y agoThis is similar to the strategy adopted by Adobe and Microsoft for a long time upto mid/late 2000s. They acted oblivious to the widespread piracy of their popular software like Windows, Office, Photoshop etc., knowing well that they can capitalize on the userbase in other ways.