Why Piracy is Perpetuating Plastic Pop

Piracy means that, especially for younger artists who haven't had chance to "make money from the music industry before the advent of digital piracy", music is being cheapened and it's harder for artists to get their money back on the music they're creating.
It also compromises the image of certain artists and can defy their whole reason for making the style of music they make and the messages they convey through their music. For example, Billy Corgan, of Smashing Pumpkins, emanates a rebellious attitude and says that showing this attitude in his music and then "begging for attention" is "completely counter intuitive to why he became a musician in the first place."
So not only does piracy deplete the number of new artists, it can also destroy the images of others.

If applying this ideas to my own music video, I would focus this idea into the artwork for the CD cover. Instead of making something generic and pleasing to the eye, perhaps something more thought-provoking, controversial and individual would gain the audience's attention without "begging for it" and would mean that the artist's individuality is kept.

An example is The Sex Pistols, who created a controversial album cover for their single "God Save the Queen" which is relevant to their views; rebellion against social conformity to monarchy and which changed the face of music and grabbed everyone's attention whilst sticking to their own morals and the messages they convey in their music. They didn't conform to the popstar norm in order to achieve demand for their music and fame.