Piracy

Piracy is Courtney Love's main point of discussion when speaking to the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference in 2000. Love's purpose is to inform the audience about what she believes piracy to be and how artists are affected. Love is clearly well-informed and she uses many statistics, such as how Toni Braxton received 35c from each album sale thanks to a "terrible recording contract", demonstrating that her speech is well-researched. Love is honest with her audience, …

…of TLC. TLC received less that 2% of the $175 million earned by their CD sales. Using the analogy, "The annual sales of cassettes, CDs and videos are larger than the gross national product of 80 countries", Love attempts to demonstrate how crazy it is that "artists who have generated billions of dollars for an industry die broke and uncared for." She uses strong negative connotations such as "die" to emphasise how terribly unfair the law change is.