Hackers Steal the poor victims of Haiti? For the RIAA, "The album" Hope for Haiti Now "is now widely available on illegal sites like The Pirate Bay, Torrentz and many others. This highlights a truly disgusting side of P2P piracy: to destroy the humanitarian efforts of raising funds for Haiti. "
By publishing such a charge on its website, the RIAA (Association for defense of the American recording industry) has raised an outcry on the Internet.
But by accusing those who illegally download "We Are The World" to undermine the fundraising, the organization that manages the interests of the U.S. majors, also suggest that the music industry itself realizes large profits on the sale of albums called charity.
Among the reactions, those of the site Numerama, for whom the equation is not necessarily so simple. " And remember that the album is much less than the downloaded music's most popular yet.
So heartless pirates or simply grist for the music industry?
The original version of "We Are The World", which this week celebrated its 25 th birthday, was the first single to be certified multi-platinum. With millions of dollars collected as part of humanitarian aid, this song still holds the record for the fastest piece of music sold in the United States.
The dozens of artists who had performed, had waived their rights, thus making the maximun revenue for Africa. In an attempt to replicate this success, a group of celebrities recorded "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" after the devastating earthquake in hopes of raising funds to help sinsitrés in need.
Although most people realize that making a direct donation to Doctors Without Borders or the Red Cross is a gesture more effective to make a donation, it did not prevent the initiative know some success. Despite all the RIAA, recently on his blog , accused the pirates to "steal" this collection campaign funds. Where is the truth in this matter?
In response to this accusation of RIAA, the newsletter Music Ally dug up some figures and found that compared to the most popular singles, the song shows a number of downloads lower. Apart from this, one wonders if those who downloaded the song would have paid if it was not available on BitTorrent. Perhaps they have already made donations to the Haitian sinsitrés a more direct way?
For the site technological Techdirt, RIAA accuses Torrentz sites like that do not even store files "torrent", while leaving Google, where pirates are the more research to find the files to download .
What makes the position of the RIAA even more hypocritical, according to these sites is that humanitarian albums like "We Are The World" has brought much to the music industry and its related businesses. This could result equally well by "stealing the Haitians."
Columbia Records and the company has achieved good results with the release of the first version of "We Are The World", which still reaps the profits generated by the rights it holds. In addition, songs, as "Do They Know It's Christmas?", Were found on compilation albums. Operation which charities have probably never seen a penny, enter these sites.
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