Neil Young on music and Steve Jobs: 'piracy is the new radio' | The Verge
Neil Young being interviewed on stage at the All Things D Dive Into Media conference:
On the distribution side, Young isn’t particularly concerned with the effects of piracy on artists, he’s more concerned that the files that are being shared are of such low quality:
“It doesn’t affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. […] Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around. […] That’s the radio. If you really want to hear it, let’s make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.”
He gets it.
