In Canada last year a band called One Soul
Thrust had their debut album illegally downloaded 100 000 times going
platinum. When the article was written they had 176 Twitter followers and 324 Facebook friends.
“The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) states that, to
achieve Platinum status, an album must achieve sales of 100,000
copies/downloads of an album. Sales…that’s the key. A random polling
of several torrent site’s downloads—ILLEGAL downloads—has shown that
1ST, the debut cd by ONE SOUL THRUST has been downloaded over 100,000
times,” he wrote.
“We paid to create that album totally out of our own pockets. People
think of illegal downloading not hurting anyone, but we’re real people
too- with real mortgages, real family to feed and real bills to pay,”
said lead-vocalist Salem Jones. “By downloading our album from pirate
sites, people have stolen from us, our families, everyone involved in
the production of our album, and their families.”
CRIA Watches Massive Music Piracy Crisis Devastate Unknown Band at Torrenfreak.com
