Ani DiFranco on Illegal File-Sharing

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/09/Ani_DiFranco_in_Conversation

Grammy Award-winning musician Ani DiFranco gives her thoughts on illegal file-sharing.

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With artistic integrity and a sincere connection to her audience, Ani DiFranco has become one of music's most prolific performers by sheer force of will. A pioneer in the independent label movement, DiFranco founded her own record company Righteous Babe Records in 1989 at the age of eighteen.

By that time the singer/songwriter was already a seasoned troubadour whose live performances established her distinctive style: rapid fingerpicking, alternate tunings, and emotive lyrics that boldly confront contemporary social and political issues. Righteous Babe has issued all twenty-one of DiFranco's full-length studio albums, including the live recording Living in Clip and the recent Reprieve.

Her career retrospective Canon contains three-dozen songs from DiFranco's expansive catalog, spanning the years 1990-2006. In Fall 2007, Righteous Babe Records and Seven Stories Press published Ani DiFranco: Verses, a collection of original poetry and paintings - City Arts & Lectures

Ani DiFranco is a Grammy Award winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She is known as a prolific artist (having released nineteen albums) and is widely celebrated as a feminist icon.

In 1989, DiFranco started her own record company, "Righteous Records" (renamed Righteous Babe Records in 1994. Prior to the renaming of Righteous Records to Righteous Babe Records. Early Releases of her CDs produced prior to 1994 are labeled with the original Righteous Records label. Her self-titled debut album was issued on the label in the winter of 1990. Later, she relocated to New York City, where she took poetry classes at The New School and toured vigorously.

Michael Azerrad is an American author, journalist and musician. He grew up in the New York City area and received his BA degree from Columbia College in 1983.

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[Mr420ways]

OH GROW UP ANI YOR FROM BROKE ASS BUFFALO NY...LIKE U NEVER DOWNLOADED A FILE WITHOUT PAYING 99 CENTS 4 IT.....U SUCK U FEMINIST FUCK

[amazingastar1]

I got my first tape in high school from my best friend, and I have bought every other album of Ani's...thank goodness for the "illegal" sharing...or I would have never fallen in love with her music!



[llel11]

@helpAHHHH

I thought it was very evenhanded. I expect she's thought about it quite a bit since if someone cuts your paycheck by a significant percentage you tend to notice.

[jamesangusmcaninch]

I'd rather have the paid for cd so I can kick back and enjoy on my terms.

[helpAHHHH]

So hard to listen to her stutter. Has she thought about this topic before?

[nvrsaynvr12]

You really have a reading problem "dude" people don't share waves or flac's regulary, and at no point did I connect audiophiles to most people either IDIOT

[swagger93]

@nvrsaynvr12 Just because most people who aren't into it don't know about sound quality doesn't make your first inane statement any less wrong. If you're trying to make a point why not try and be credible. Any audiophile does not equal most people. In fact, they are the opposite of most people, and in fact they are the type of person that would best understand lossless and high-quality lossy compression. Read what you write and look at the flow of logic.

[swagger93]

@nvrsaynvr12 Dude, you are ridiculously misinformed. How can you seriously say "any audiophile" when any audiophile knows the reality is the exact opposite of what you are saying? DERP LOSSLESS MEANS NO DATA LOST DERP STFU you IDIOT

[M0EJ0EKING]

@nvrsaynvr12

FLAC is uncompressed audio

cds are compressed

FLAC is better and pirate-able

besides everyone knows concerts is how musicians make there money

[M0EJ0EKING]

@nvrsaynvr12

you do not what FLAC is right?