Piracy... *issue*

MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ It doesn't matter how many CDs you bought - if you dowload one without paying that's just as illegal as if you don't legally own any CDs.

Speaking strictly legally you are quite right of course. Morally i think it makes quite a difference if someone  downloads music because A) he doesn't want to pay for the music or B) he wants to have a clue what he is buying before doing so.

^ I also think that they should lower the price of the mp3/wma files. It's ridiculous to pay $10 for an album in mp3 quality, with no cover or booklet and most importantly: With no possibility to sell it to another person if you decide that you don't like it, and with certain restrictions (DRM) which limit the usability.

Everybody should check out www.emusic.com ... the files are considerably cheaper, in high quality mp3 (~220kbps), and they specialize in alternative/experimental/prog.

^ It doesn't matter how many CDs you bought - if you dowload one without paying that's just as illegal as if you don't legally own any CDs.

I have never understood this line of logic. I have talked to tons of people who say "Yeah, well I can't afford cds so I download them." I can't afford a Ferrari but that doesn't mean it's ok to take one. If you can't afford something, just don't buy it. It's easy. I also get "Records companies are greedy so it's ok to steal from them" a lot. This is absurd. Obviously people are willing to buy albums at the price the record company sets, or they would be forced to lower it or go out of business. If your boss told you he was willing to pay a lot more for you than your current sallery, would you decline? It's not being greedy, it's being smart.

This media (digital file sharing) is new, being an impoverished student IS NOT, when I was a student I couldn't afford all the LP's I wanted, not by a very long shot. I saved, or I went without.

Being hard up does not give you special rights. Sometimes the wait makes the item far sweeter when it arrives.

It might be an old fashioned philosophy but it works.

P-C

My post (^above) was in response to a post that was deleted due to it's nature. Therefore my post does look a little out of context.

However the MYTH that downloaders BUY MORE Cd's than other buyers is in fact A MYTH created as a comfort blanket by those who induldge in illegal activity.

The record industry is collapsing........rapidly, this is not due to the ammount of music or the quality of music, it is due to the "download now, maybe buy later" culture.

This is a FACT and no ammount of dressing it up will alter that.

MOST labels/artists offer preview mp3 for free, WHY IS IT NECESSARY to abuse them by downloading entire albums from some hippy ideology that says its great to SHARE???

WHEN, and only WHEN you SHARE you income with whoever wants to take a slice, then come back and lets talk. But until then my views will NOT be changed.

My views DO make people uncomfortable. I don't however apologise for that.

P-C

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What do you do for a living Spacecraft???

Edited by Atkingani - June 03 2006 at 23:54

-Radioswim- wrote: NetsNJFan wrote: why do I think that someone is you?  I buy CDs... I do   btw... is that rediculously high # in your sig... our Country's debt?

you called it

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