Alicia Keys chats to ilikemusic.com
"Many times the consumer is treated like an unknowing person, like they don't deserve to get quality thing, and it's like,'as long as there's a couple of good songs on there who cares?," comments Alicia, shaking her head. "But we're not idiots. We want good music and we want to hear a whole album packed with good music, and we don't want to pay $17 and hear crap, so I think, in a lot of ways, it's that which started the whole piracy thing, because people had been taken advantage of."
Piracy is, indeed, an issue for artists such as Alicia who, on one hand can sympathise with the vengeful consumer, but on the other hand thinks consumers take the paid donwload option to support their favourite artists.
"Piracy is a big problem, which has developed into something that can really take away an artists ability to create music. Eventually, if it continues, I feel like it would end up with some of our favourite artists and people we like the most being unable to create music, because it's being virtually stolen," she says.
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