During my quest to find many artists who have their own opinion on piracy for music, movies etc. many of their views were similar but the way they personally presented their own opinion was interesting. For my live (In Person!) interview I happened to interview the guitarist Jesse Vuona who currently is with the band Thunderbloods but he was most popular for his work with Read Yellow. He was a student at University of Massachusetts Amherst when he co-formed Read Yellow, my interview with Jesse was live and recorded so I have the video file located within.

            Whilst searching for opinions of artists whose work I happen to enjoy I came across a few articles regarding 50 cent's opinion on music piracy today. 50 cent (Curtis James Jackson III) is an American born rapper from the queens is very famous among the rap industry. In my first article that I found, 50 simply implored that the piracy of music should be accepted as a fad of the generation and is not going away anytime soon. He said, "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,” which basically states that it should be regulated but needs to also be accepted.

50 cent brought up a good point by bringing the movie business into the picture because piracy is said to affect them more than the music industry. He said that “when you got your blockbuster film doing $120 million in a weekend and then that blockbuster film that they spent $120 million comes out and nobody goes to see but everybody watched it because they could pull it off their computer and see it on HD at home on a theatre. They'll change those laws". He has a very valid point here indeed.

Another artist that I found had a much stronger opinion against piracy and was very, very frustrated with what it has/will do to music. Gene Simmons was subjected to a DDoS attack from angry Anonymous members last week.

“How are you going to get paid for it if people can just get it for free? The record industry doesn't have a f*****g clue how to make money,” said an angry Simmons back in 2007.

“It’s only their fault for letting foxes get into the hen house and then wondering why there’s no eggs or chickens. Every little college kid, every freshly scrubbed little kid’s face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning.”

Roll forward into 2010 and it seems little has changed for the KISS front man.

“Make sure your brand is protected. Make sure there are no incursions. Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars. Don’t let anybody cross that line.”

Simmons had an angry look at this issue and he would not give up on his rants against those who hacked and distributed music.

Graham Cluley is a technology expert and gave his words about the negative opinions of artists like Mr. Simmons:

“We have seen a rise in the last year of 'hacktivism', hacking groups like Anonymous and Lulzsec who hack for political reasons or because they have an issue with somebody. Sometimes entertainment figures have suffered as a result because people find it entertaining.”

"In Gene Simmons' case he was quite outspoken regarding peer to peer file sharing and people who pirated music and that obviously angered a lot of people who are part of that community."