Insurers Suggest Podium & Stage Collapse Tragedies Are The Inevitable Result Of File Sharing?
from the say-what-now? dept
You may have heard about the recent tragedy at the Belgian Pukkelpop music festival, in which a tent collapsed in the middle of a big storm and four people died. This came soon after a series of other mishaps with stages collapsing, including at a Cheap Trick show, a Flaming Lips show and the big collapse at the Indiana State Fair, which resulted in multiple deaths as well.Apparently some unnamed insurance companies have come up with an interesting theory behind all these collapses. As pointed out by JonMontgo, one company seems to be suggesting there's a direct connection to unauthorized file sharing. This comes from a BoingBoing post, which actually links to an image from a Belgian (?) newspaper:
"The crashing down of the podium of the Pukkelpop rock festival that killed five and injured eighty last August 18, is maybe not due to the violence of the storm. Confronted with multiple similar catastrophes, the experts of insurance companies see it as the unexpected consequence of the falling disc sales. The bands have a vital interest in giant concerts, they rent giant podiums overloaded with video equipment and spots. The rain and the wind do not destroy more often than before, but when they fall, the damage is much greater."That seems like a pretty weakly supported assertion. I'm not sure that the importance of concerts automatically leads to more video equipment, but whatever. Either way, it seems like a pretty big stretch to somehow pin this on file sharing.
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Fake story
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Obligatory:
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It makes more people aware of the bands that they learn to love.
They show up at the concerts to buy the shirts, posters, trinkets and experience what an MP3 can never capture and deliver.
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*popcorn*
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That is a much closer translation to what is written.
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Re: Can someone get stats about the % of money a band made from live shows vs music sales in say 1970 vs today?
Remember, the record companies charge everything against the band, so there is usually no money leftover to actually pay them. This is called being “unrecouped”.
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T shirt man?
it's not file sharing that is causing it, but a dying (More for Less) industry.
the legacy (Love that word) industry (material exchange of entertainment) is trying to recoup what has already long past.
"the faster the Universe goes, the denser we become, how fast you going?"
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Why does this mean file sharing? What about drop in popularity, or not releasing a new cd or single n a while, or people instead buying the music in digital form?
This article smells of a slow news week and a pro-'free file sharing' attitude.
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Because the recording industry places near-as-dammit to 100% of the blame for falling CD sales on file-sharing.
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Response to: fb39ca4 on Sep 16th, 2011 @ 9:02pm
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Why anonymity is so important and why the entertaiment industry is wrong
People get killed when they can't be anonymous.
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Insurance
Obama 2012 = NO
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Actually, they may be on to something, but without much of an explaination. If the only money left in music is the performance side (especially in music that appeals to a younger, more likely to pirate crowd), then I am sure they would go all out to make their shows the best possible, in order to charge premium ticket prices.
If they are bringing more and more equipment, setting up larger grandstands, and overloading them to make the most money possible, there is the porential for problems.
I will say it takes a big leap to go from "falling record sales" to "blame piracy", only on Techdirt could that happen without to many people noticing.
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Insurance companies could care less why CD sales are falling. Their sole concern is liability risk, and the more stuff you stick on a stage can quite easily be seen as as a significant risk factor.
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The RIAA's real enemy of its monopoly is Apple but it's far easier to attack downloaders.
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the weak link
Bands that are less successful tend to have more stage equipment.
Of course in reality that's the opposite of true, but in order to make a link to file sharing via the truth, the newspaper would have to admit that other true thing, about how file sharing can make a band more successful.
It's an unimportant causal connection, made via a double-false-negative, like saying "cheap medication is bad because it leads to old people driving cars and killing people-- uh, because their pharma stock isn't doing well enough to allow them to hire chauffeurs".
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I'm not sure exactly what they make today but if I remember correctly I think Jimmy Hendrix only got paid around $3000 for Woodstock. Also I live in Indiana and one of the groups that was going to play the fair later that week moved to a different place to play but they donated the tickect sales they already had to the victims of the fair deal and that was $500k. So between those two I think today artist make a couple dollars more then back in the 70's.
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Let's go further...
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Insurers are only interested in one thing here - subrogation.
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They wish to be paid every time someone uses the stage. Since they aren't granted copyright, they try to build it to last for only one performance.
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I don't know what the #1 is refering to
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My brain hurts...
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that's like saying jacking a 30-ton house with a 2-ton car jack is the Fuzzy Dice's manufacturer's fault.
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Ah, I get it now.... Pirates downloaded and stold part of the stage resulting the the collapse
Piracy = Theft,
Pirates wanted the data from the show/stage,
therefor we can conclude that Pirates stole the stage supports, which was the direct cause of the stage collapsing (because correlation always equals causation, and all we have to show is that pirates 'stole' something and therefore they have to be to blame).
Am I doing it right? This trolling thing is hard....
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