Rapper 50 Cent is convinced politicians won’t launch a crackdown on illegal downloading until Hollywood studios begin to experience losses at the box office.
The hip-hop star fears the music industry needs new laws to regulate content which is available on the internet – because so many artists are losing money from illicit file-sharing.
But the In Da Club hitmaker is adamant the situation won’t change until it begins to affect the movie industry – and powerful film chiefs realize their pictures are being illegally accessed online.
He tells MTV news, “I don’t think the music business is dying. I think we’re just experiencing technology and we just have to pass new laws, eventually, to change how music is being distributed. It’s just about redeveloping what the music business is. It’s easier to download a song that’s three minutes long, probably about three or four seconds for you to download it, it’s easier to steal.
“When you got your blockbuster film doing $120 million in a weekend, and then (another) blockbuster film that they spent $120 million (on) comes out and nobody goes to see (it) but everybody watched it because they could pull it off their computer and see it on HD at home on a theater – they’ll change those laws.”
