{"id":325,"date":"2010-10-06T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/10\/06\/gene-simmons-slams-music-industrys-qlack-of-ballsq\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T08:37:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T08:37:27","slug":"gene-simmons-slams-music-industrys-qlack-of-ballsq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2010\/10\/06\/gene-simmons-slams-music-industrys-qlack-of-ballsq\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Simmons Slams Music Industry&#8217;s &#8220;Lack Of Balls&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musically.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/simmons-300x268.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"154\" height=\"152\" \/><br \/>How should the music industry have tackled illegal filesharing? Kiss frontman Gene Simmons has some blunt ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe music industry was asleep at the wheel and didn\u2019t have the balls to go and sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who downloaded a clip, so now we\u2019re left with hundreds of people without jobs\u201d he said <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mipworld.com\/2010\/10\/liveblog-gene-simmons-on-building-successful-entertainment-brands\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">at the MIPCOM conference<\/span><\/span><\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of us are in something called showbusiness. And in the music business, which is part of show business, actually think it\u2019s just music or show. They forget it\u2019s a business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And there was more. \u201cIt is a business. You have a fiduciary duty to your own butt to make sure you maximise any potential and minimise any exposure. Make sure your brand is protected, be litigious, sue anybody \u2013 take their homes, their cars. Don\u2019t let anybody cross that line!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more wisdom from Simmons, check the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mipworld.com\/2010\/10\/liveblog-gene-simmons-on-building-successful-entertainment-brands\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">liveblog of his MIPCOM session<\/span><\/span><\/a>, where he waxed lyrical on branding and his new TV activities.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Industry Report<\/p>\n<p> <!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.5 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How should the music industry have tackled illegal filesharing? Kiss frontman Gene Simmons has some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}