The executive producer of the duo, 5five, the Discovery of the Year artist at the just ended Ghana Music Awards, Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson a.k.a Bulldog is asking that pirates should be hanged to death.

He told The Arts Crusade yesterday via telephone that “I don’t see why you put so much money in a project and at the end not get anything from it because its been pirated”.

Seething with anger over the phone, Bulldog asserted that pirates were not helping the music industry in any way hence his advocacy for capital punishment for them.

“They should be treated like criminals, like those in the cocaine business, they should be given the capital punishment of hanging; they pirate the products and tomorrow when they see the artist wretched, they say the producers are not taking care of their artist”.

Bulldog believes that its about time stakeholders in the music industry come together to curb what has become an albatross on the neck of musicians.

A cross section of musicians this paper spoke to in the week on the same topic noted that its about time the authorities take the music industry serious and check on the activities of pirates.

“How can somebody work hard on a project for say, a year and you would use maybe two days to pirate and spoil the person’s future. You’re as criminal as the armed robber who takes the gun and pounce on a person in his/her house”, Kojo Oduro a music fan told Arts Crusade.

Baba Moro of Mallam in Accra hold the same view, calling on the Musician Union of Ghana to come to the aid of musician to curb the menace.