Content Downloading - Right or Wrong?

[knlwtchr 0]

Well my question is this.... If everyone is downloading music from the internet without paying for it, how are the artists supposed to make a living? I mean, what would be the point to producing music if no one is going to buy it?

 

The artists make a fine living off concerts, TV, movies, radio, and CD sales. Im not buying pirated material from some schmoe off the street and Im not selling it, either. And its not like stealing a vase. If it were, you would be guilty of theft everytime you heard a song on the radio or off someone ELSES stereo. File sharing is just that, sharing. Someone bought it to begin with. Are we going to stop sharing our stereo music and TV shows, now?

 

"From now on, if you want to listen to music, you have to have a copy of it that you bought on CD and you have to listen to it on your own stereo by yourself. Same with your movies and TV shows. Anyone caught allowing your friend to listen or watch will be prosecuted."

 

Thats just ridiculous.

[Travis Kroells 0]

Well, I thought I might as well get around to this...

 

I really only pirate MP3's, or videos...which I wont get into for decency's sake.

 

I find more often then not, the songs I pirate (which Im not afraid to say is illegal) are from bands, where I only really like a couple songs. Im not about to go to a store and pay 16-20 bucks for a CD where I'll only listen to 2-3 songs, it's a waste of good money.

 

Another thing that I have found, is that pirating actually has prompted me to buy a CD, or invest later on. Linkin Park is one of my favorite bands, and I became hooked on them by pirating half of Hybrid Theory, which I later went on to buy. I also ended up buying: Reanimation, Meteora, and the Crash Course collaboration with Jay-Z.

 

Also, I pirate stuff I already have. Im downloading half of Reanimation this very moment, because a friend of mine has never heard it and Im mixing all the tracks from Hybrid and Reanimation to show her the remixes, that and the fact that my disc was badly damaged a few months back, and Im not buying it again. You dont like it? You think Im a man stealing pocket change from multimillion dollar artists?

 

I dont care. Make an audio speech about how I'm wrong and I'll pirate that too.

Edited January 16, 2006 by Travis Kroells

[STSF Seiben 0]

I don't really pirate much either. Mainly animes and some music from CD's I do not wish to buy. I really don't wish to go out in the cold, and search high and low for a CD, with only two or three songs that I really want to listen to. Most of the stuff I do download though isn't even available for sale here in North America. Yes, it is illegal, but so is littering, jay-walking, and taping football games. But we still do it anyways, right?

[LoAmi 0]

taping football games.

I'm not sure how Canada handles this, but, in the US, taping football games ("time-shifting") is legal. It was decided by the Supreme Court in Universal Studios v. Sony ("the Betamax case"), a decision the recording industry has been trying to have overturned ever since.

[Dumbass 0]

I'm not sure how Canada handles this, but, in the US, taping football games ("time-shifting") is legal.  It was decided by the Supreme Court in Universal Studios v. Sony ("the Betamax case"), a decision the recording industry has been trying to have overturned ever since.

Every once in a while I like to call up Blockbuster and see if they have anything in Beta. Once I had the poor girl researching if you could play DVDs on a Beta machine.

 

I don't know what this has to do with the topic but I just thought I would interject that anyway. :rolleyes:

Edited January 17, 2006 by Dumbass