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Poll Question: should it be leagal?
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Points: 329 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2006 at 03:41
in my country the price of CDs is very high (a single CD can cost 21 euros, some times....that's too much)...so if prices are so high it's normal that people download music mp3 or other....if prices went down, for example, I'd buy more CDs...I think that if prices didn't go down it should be legal to download music...
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Points: 4981 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2006 at 21:59
No. I would say artists' choice, but that would convolute the whole matter and create more fuzz than it's worth. It either needs to be legal or illegal. I say illegal.
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Points: 303 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 12:32
I'm kinda half way. I do download "illegally", but that's only because the price of CDs is so high. I will download a few tracks from an album and if I like what I hear, I'll buy the album, replacing the illegally downloaded tracks with the legally acquired ones. If I don't like what I hear… well what's the point of cluttering up my hard disk with music I don't like?

I think all artists should release a few tracks from their albums to be passed around. Spineshank did that with their 2003 album "Self-Destructive Pattern". Part way through the track, the music faded and there was an announcement of the track's name, the album's name and the date of its release.

I liked what I heard, so now I have that album.

Simple, really!
    

Edited by CaptainQuark - October 20 2006 at 12:33
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Points: 9669 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 15:40
Illegally downloading music should be illegal.Stern Smile 
 
(It stands to reason that if it were made legal, it wouldn't be illegal downloading.)Geek
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 16:02
The artist can decide if he wants the music to be freely avaliable to the public, but it usually won't matter because the labels usually have control of pressing and distribution, not the artists. And in the case of indie labels, I doubt most would even bother prosecuting any file sharer.
 
My overall position is NO.
 
But perhaps after all the artist(s) is(are) dead, then it should be free game. I think it's a bit shifty for labels to continue making nifty amounts of cash on dead artist's music, when all they did was let him write is and distibute it.
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 16:03
I used to have quite a few of illegaly downloaded records. One day I accidentally deleted them all...
I don't download music any more (only from legal sources).
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Points: 34550 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2006 at 17:39
Artists choice. Downloading music illegaly is stealing from the artist, BUT some don't care. It just makes sense to me they should decide. 
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Points: 1313 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 21 2006 at 10:13
Originally posted by Australian Australian wrote:

Illegal downloads suck, they are destroying music and the problem is basically eveyone does it.


You hit the nail on the head! Illegal downloads suck! Dead

But in my country child absuser get weaker punishments than people who download illegal! AngryDead

THAT SHOWS THAT THE TRUE POWER LIES BY THE COMPANIES. DAMN CAPITALISM!!! CryCensored





Edited by Badabec - October 21 2006 at 10:13
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