Canada, one of the wealthiest and most stable nations in the world, seems to have a thing for piracy when it comes to music and video.
I’ll admit it: If you go through the files on my computer, you’ll find songs that I downloaded from Napster and other illegal file-sharing sites. At the time — for me it was 2001-2003 — downloading songs illegally was seen as a goof, even harmless. How could a couple of downloaded tracks bother a multi-national record label or some millionaire rock stars?
That attitude was totally, utterly wrong, of course, and by the time I woke up to this reality, the recorded music industry was starting to spiral downwards. Fast. CD sales had begun to plummet and it became clear that piracy was one of the big contributing factors.My pirate ways were killed forever by iTunes. It was just easier to pay 99 cents/$1.29 for a high-quality audio file than endure terrible sounding, often incomplete, sometimes virus-ridden MP3s downloaded from god knows where.
Then there was the issue of metadata, making sure that the songs were labelled correctly. Oftentimes, a torrented song would have the wrong title, spell the name of the artist wrong, or not include all the necessary tags. You have to then organize the songs somehow in your library. Besides being wrong and immoral, music piracy took too much work.
I’ve since amassed thousands of legal digital downloads. As I write this, iTunes tells me I have 79,640 items in my library. Not all are paid-for downloads, of course. There are many,CD rips along with other audio such as interviews, with much being associated with my work withWhen streaming started to take off in Canada around 2010, most believed that this would be the end of music piracy.
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