While speaking yesterday at the Music Week Africa conference yesterday, Nigerian music star D’banj was reported to have said that Nigeria has no piracy issues and he has never had any piracy issues.
In his words, ‘Nigeria is the only country in the world that does not have piracy. As far as I’m concerned, I’ve never been pirated because it’s the same place they are selling original that they are selling the fake CDs.’
Wait. Let’s see if he means the same piracy that the whole Nigerian music industry has been railing against since forever.
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Simply put, music piracy is the illegal copying or downloading of music without the consent of the recording artiste, composer or recording company. Right?
In essence, D’banj is saying that his music has never been illegally copied?
So what is this?
Or this?
So, because some pirates sell original CDs along with the fakes, it means piracy doesn’t exist?
He must have travelled out when the Nigerian Copyright Commission said it seized N45m worth of pirated materials in April. Or destroyed over N2b billion in pirated movies in May.
That means the ‘No Music Day’ that Nigerian artistes mark every year is a waste of everybody’s time
President D’banj has declared it to be a false alarm
