Brian is FURIOUS!

"I can understand your well-founded outrage at people who seem, in your opinion, to be taking advantage of artist’s charitable work. In that sense you are clearly correct and have every right to be upset. However, on the other side of coin, it is virtually impossible for artists such as yourself to be unaffected by illegal downloads of their music. Clearly, there are those computer-savvy individuals who take advantage no matter what the cost to causes that desperately need the revenue from paying donations. But I ask HOW DO WE PREVENT THIS THEFT! Until there are more restrictions placed on unauthorized downloads I see no other way to prevent artistic theft. Therein lies another argument as to freedom of usage on the internet, this argument is being debated and will continue to be debated until a solution that appeases both sides of the issue."

This cannot be prevented. But if you belive in it, you'll not download, share, and u'll discourage all people you know that do it from doing it (sorry for my devastating english, but i'm italian:). If you are this kind of person, keep your soul in peace: Brian's message is not directed to you.

Manzotin -- Hi! Please read the other paragraph I wrote and you will see that I do not believe in restricting the net that would be impossible, but I think BM's remark was directed solely at those who download music that was meant for charitable donations only.

You also have to look at it from BM's point of view, if you had a song that you put your heart and soul into recorded it, would you want people to download it and distribute it for free especially when you wrote it to raise money for a charitible cause. That is in a way stealing, you cannot deny that fact.

Kriz ;o(

I think people here are still not understanding that Brian is upset about people downloading the studio versions, not the concert.

He really needs to specify whether he's talking about the studio MP3s or videos that people taped off TV.

Well, think about it for a minute. If they're hosting the concert for free on the 46664 website, then he can't be referring to the live songs, is he? Obviously, it's the studio songs he's upset about.

"Well, think about it for a minute. If they're hosting the concert for free on the 46664 website, then obviously he isn't referring to the live songs, is he? Obviously, it's the studio songs he's upset about."

I thought so as well, until I read that Brian accuses the Parasites of hurting DVD sales and not CD sales. If he was solely concerned with studio songs, I don't quite see why he would mention specifically the DVD of a live performance. Perhaps you are right, but it's still too vague for me.


And as for a true definition of what a "parasite" is, I refer you to the following link:
http://46664.tiscali.com/money.html

Ponder that at your own leisure

Very good point, Zeni.

Since the video is at 46664.com, the only reason I can think of as to why Brian doesn't want the video traded (if he doesn't) is that he wants people to go to the 46664 site to view it, hoping people will make a donation while they're there.

Of course, the TV broadcasts had the site address at the bottom of the screen, so personally I'd think trading the videos would advertise the site even more. But maybe his opinion is different.

Or this could be totally wrong...anyway that's my current theory :)

Yeah Zeni, that's an excellent point. That's indeed strange that Brian would mention DVD sales when the show is available for free online on the official site. Strange...

The quality of the webcast is pretty bad though. The quality of a recording from the TV broadcast (which wasn't available in most countries) isn't great, but may be good enough to discourage some people from buying the DVD.