IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson discussed the massive impact internet and filesharing made on the music industry, telling Globo News during a recent interview.
“The music industry exploited its customers,” he said (see video below). “The record companies were making a lot of money for not doing very much. They believed the downloading would just disappear. But it didn’t, and they didn’t do anything about it. They didn’t see downloading as being a great way to access their fans, their customers, if you like. But bands did — the bands were way ahead of the record companies.
“Brazil, for example, had one of the youngest audiences of any country in the world,” he continued. “And consequently, they had a huge uptake on Internet activity. So, for a band like IRON MAIDEN, who, we embraced the Internet very early on, we were making contact with people in Brazil directly. And that was great for us. But the record companies failed to understand that because they were too arrogant, they were too old, they were too slow.”
