Music Piracy
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| Brendon Urie.. King For A Couple Of Days  Age: 37 Gender: Female Posts: 2394  | I always like to own the CD, but sometimes I can't get it in my area or don't have the money at the time and I usually do end up buying the CD. However, some songs you get online you can't get on CD. They're live versions or just songs by obscure artists that are difficult to find. |
| blood Shoot Me, I'm A Newbie  Age: - Gender: - Posts: 94 | greendayjunkie: I love collecting the cases! Kinda weird I spose. Anyway, the artist's gone to the trouble to record it and what not, and deaserve at least a little something for it. If everyone did this, then artists wouldn't bother making music. Then where would we be? |
| Addison Montgomery. Falling In Love With The Board  Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 7078  | Incubus:Quite right |
| Matty. King For A Couple Of Days  Age: 34 Gender: Male Posts: 3945 | its bad, but eberyone does it |
| White Riot King For A Couple Of Days  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 4761 | I am completely for free music and filesharing programs. If you tell me you've never downloaded at least one song without paying for it, you'rr a damn liar. Not all songs are available on CDs or whatever, and are rare, and sometimes the only way you can find them is by internet. (doesn't always mean they're free though...) But anyway, I honestly don't think you're hurting anyone by getting music for free. If a band wants to complain on how people are "stealing" their music by illegal downloading, then its quite obvious they aren't in the buisness for the right reasons. They just want to make money. I understand some musicians don't have money to put food on the table, so they sell albums--but face it. You're a normal human being. Go out and get a job. Its not gonna hurt you. But,like most debates, they all are a bit hypocritical. It could go the same way, "Go out and get a job,its not gonna hurt you to buy something for once." Yeah,well, that's true as well. But still, ifs available for free, who isn't going to go for it? ... FREE THE MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Apocalypse Shoot Me, I'm A Newbie Age: - Gender: - Posts: 42 | If I'd be against it, I'd be an hypocrite because I download quite a lot of music. I never downloaded a full album, just enough to give me a good idea if I like it or not. Anyway, when I don't have the REAL cd of one of my favorite bands, I feel bad. One day someone gave me a burned cd, it became my favorite and I loved the band, so I felt like shit for not having the real album and I bought it. |
| spill_no_sick Falling In Love With The Board Age: 31 Gender: - Posts: 8588 | Apocalypse:it wouldn't make you a hypocrite, expecially if you're using it the correct way I download music all the time expecially since I'm into bands that are so underground it's impossible to find their actual CDs I only download the stuff until I find the CD (or cassette in a lot of cases) and then I can delete the stuff so yeah, 99.5% of people use it wrong...I'm not one of them and neither is Apocalypse |
| suzie_k Falling In Love With The Board  Age: 39 Gender: Female Posts: 8288 | I tend not to download. I like to have the CD. I like to look at the inserts and the artwork. And that is pretty much how I decide what to buy aswell. If it looks interesting I'll buy it. |
| ColleenStarship Addict  Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 11991 | it depends on who i'm downloading from some bands i like don't have an actual cd or i can't get the cd so i'll download it from their myspace or something ... but they are putting that option so people can take it other than that i buy from itunes when it comes to burned cds , my brother's girlfriend burned me MSI , and i love it ... i don't feel 'bad' about it |
| White Riot King For A Couple Of Days Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 4761 | Viva La Stupid: And that's a good way to use it. *coughcoughyouguysshouldcheckoutCarbon/Siliconcoughcough* Also,when its a band that is no longer around or the members are dead, and you download their music for free, then theres no harm in that. Only the stupid companies are getting profit from it. |
| Matt Smith Admin  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 31134 | Put it this way: You're an artist. You make music, you love doing that. You put a lot of effort into making music, and you expect to get something back from that right?. Capitalism dictates that to live you need money, no matter how much you love making music. But people taking your music for free disrupts that. |
| spill_no_sick Falling In Love With The Board Age: 31 Gender: - Posts: 8588 | Bloodraine:you know full well that musicians make little to no money off of recordings they make money from touring and making appearences the record companies make money off of the recordings |
| Plug In Baby. Addict Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 11334 | spill_no_sick: Well, yeah, its more like they give you money to record the album, and you have to pay them back that loan. Also, it depends if you actually were on a record lable or not, you know? There are many bands that actually record and market their albums themselves, they organise shows, they organise the appearences. They get all the money from that. Like, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't that was John Butler did? I only download to listen to a song, to see if I like it. I will then buy the album, if I do like it, if I do not, I simply delete the song. Buying CDs makes me happy. Like, I buy a CD, or a few, and I walk out of the store all happy cause I just bought a CD. |
| spill_no_sick Falling In Love With The Board Age: 31 Gender: - Posts: 8588 | Coff:that's the purpous of file sharing but any band that's famous enough to where file sharing effects them, they're on a major lable |
| Plug In Baby. Addict Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 11334 | Nope, John Butler Trio are pretty big.. at least here he is, so yeah. And also, Ben Lee, not that I like him, I actually think he is a really big tool, but anyways, he is on an independant label and he is huge. There are a lot of bands in Australia that a lot of people like and they download their music, and they are on independant labels, or they release it themselves. It affects them. |
| spill_no_sick Falling In Love With The Board Age: 31 Gender: - Posts: 8588 | Coff:it does effect indie bands more if that's what your whole point was about |
| Plug In Baby. Addict Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 11334 | No, you said "any band that's famous enough to where file sharing effects them, they're on a major lable" and I was saying "well, no, there are a lot of bands over here that are big, and aren't on major labels, and filesharing does affect them" |
| spill_no_sick Falling In Love With The Board Age: 31 Gender: - Posts: 8588 | let me restate it then "bands on major lables aren't effected" "bands on no lable aren't effected" "indie bands are effected" |
| Matt Smith Admin Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 31134 | spill_no_sick: And how do you propose they tour without recording anything, anyway? |
| spill_no_sick Falling In Love With The Board Age: 31 Gender: - Posts: 8588 | Bloodraine:recognition recognition gets you the tour and since when am I the guy defending stealing music? I'm not for it, I'm just trying to dispel rumors about it you know, that's what I do, I say, "just because it's bad doesn't mean you should believe everything bad thing you hear about it, and just because it's bad doesn't make it right to exaggerate or flat out lie about it to make it seem worse" |
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