Some significant data were released last week by the (suddenly very visible) music reporting service, MusicMetric.

Significant, in this case, equates to over 400 million instances of illegally downloaded music around the world during the first six months of 2012.

Disaster.

Crisis.

Death of music. 

And yet…

Of Piracy & Profiteering

What most struck me about this report is that the headline artists, those most downloaded in any given country, aren’t of the old guard. From Drake in the US, Ed Sheeran in the UK, and the largely unknown Billy Van in a number of other countries, all are musicians who have risen to prominence in the last few years. [Read more...]