If you don't like music enough to pay for it, then you shouldn't steal it.http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/12/03/sting-im-glad-im-starting-now-music-industry
by Paul Resnikoff
Dec. 3, 2014
Sting: The model is changing obviously, and I don’t think the model we have at the moment is necessarily the one that’s going to be there in five or ten years. We need something that’s a little more equitable for musicians, I think musicians need to be paid for their work.
It’s fine for me, you know I —
Betty Liu (Bloomberg): Well you’ve made your money —
Sting: — I’ve made my money and I’m well off. But young artists beginning their career, the idea of making a living out of this business is tough, and increasingly so. So whatever model is created needs to be equitable.
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Liu: But on the other side, I hear people that say, ‘why should artists feel that they have any right to make tons and tons of money like they did in the past?’
Sting: It’s not tons and tons of money, it’s making a living. In this industry you can make a killing, but it’s hard to make a living, and I think it needs to be more equitable.
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Liu: So do you think you’d be able to make as much money as you have, if you started out now today –?
Sting: — No.
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