Talk:Music piracy

Maybe merge with other piracy articles
I just discovered there's also an article about Online piracy. These could probably merge together with a more general article about copyright piracy, or Copyright infringement. Digital piracy, regardless of the type of media being distributed, uses the same technologies, and all forms of copyright piracy happens for the same reasons, is often perpetrated by the same people, and inspires the same public policy debates... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Android the Andrew (talk • contribs) 20:17, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Needs more history. Links to history of RIAA?
This article reads like it was written by the pirate party and music executives and then edited to compromise. The world existed before radios yet alone computers. 208.186.119.162 (talk) 23:23, 20 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I agree. I actually started this page years ago as a college student for a small student-run elective class. My project partner and I originally envisioned this as an overview of the history of music piracy; my partner had done research on, and was supposed to write about, pre-digital music piracy -- for example, apparently people used to listen to music in concert, transcribe it, and (illegally) distribute the sheet music. He never wrote his part of the article, though, and I was never able to find the time to search for whatever sources he'd found, so "History" was removed from the title. But I still think a much broader and deeper look at the history would make this a more interesting article. Android the Andrew (talk) 05:30, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
 * In my opinion most of the article violates WP:NPOV, there's some subtle propaganda in it (from both extreme sides). It needs a lot of editing, possibly a rewrite, otherwise deletion. It has the potential to harm. Dawgie0 (talk) 07:24, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I would be disappointed if this article were deleted, because I think it's an interesting topic — especially if the pre-digital copyright piracy would ever get included. But I do agree it needs a rewrite. Unfortunately, I've never been very good at writing in the encyclopedic prose style in general, and I have fairly strong opinions about copyright law in particular, so I don't think I should be the one to write it. Android the Andrew (talk) 07:12, 12 September 2017 (UTC)