At the Copyright Music Organization (COTT) members’ meeting Roadmarch winner and Soca Monarch 2006 spoke on the theme “From Songwriting to Royalties”. In his comments he said that the radio DJs are to blame for CD piracy:
Technorati Tags: soca piracy Trinidad“I’ll be real, here – the radio stations – the DJs. I’ll tell you, I released “Wine Down Low” one Friday morning on a radio station and by midday, I was walking up Fredrick Street and I heard my song playing on a pirate’s cart.”
He’s probably right. If it’s not from the radio DJs then how else do the pirates get the music? Somebody is giving it to the pirates. It’s sad! Very very sad! All real supporters can do is try to attend all their artiste’s performances and buy the original cds when they are put up for sale there. It’s a pity that more artists don’t bring a lot of music to sell at their performances. There must be a way to stop DJ’s from easily copying CDs and distributing to pirates. Perhaps streaming music is the way to go, let the DJ’s stream the music for the radio…it’s a very reliable way to source music and less easy to pirate, although not completely copy-proof.