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    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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 27802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2006 at 15:02
Originally posted by hackett acolyte hackett acolyte wrote:

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If you would have done a search you would have seen that this has been debated over and over and over again in the forum,and quite a few of those threads got closed because of arguments and such.
    


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I hate download music from the Internet.. Angry
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^ thanks! Currently the list is sorted by album name, I'll group it by artist later (currently I'm busy with work).

The tracks available through Napster are supplied by the music industry and hosted on servers owned by Napster. It's really got nothing to do with file sharing or P2P anymore.Smile
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Points: 4828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2006 at 07:40
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ no problem! I even created a page on my website today which lists more albums:

http://www.ratingfreak.com/home/albums/napster.xhtml

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It's honourable how much effort you put into things you see improtant! As a development hint, the list would be more useful if the material would be in alphabetical order in my opinion. Tongue
 
How does the material get into Napster v.2, are they from user shares or does the server upkeeper provide them? 


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wow, my first successful thread since my return, im proud.Clap
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^ no problem! I even created a page on my website today which lists more albums:

http://www.ratingfreak.com/home/albums/napster.xhtml

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Points: 4828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2006 at 04:46
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ of course Napster only offers tracks from official releases. But there are some really rare albums available - it's certainly not only mainstream. For example they have Painkiller - Execution Ground, Mike Keneally - Wooden Smoke, Robert Wyatt (most studio releases), The Residents ... Big smile 
 
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i find i dont have a problem with people using these things as taste testers, but they have to buy the album aswell, or they are cheating and stealing.
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^ of course Napster only offers tracks from official releases. But there are some really rare albums available - it's certainly not only mainstream. For example they have Painkiller - Execution Ground, Mike Keneally - Wooden Smoke, Robert Wyatt (most studio releases), The Residents ... Big smile 
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Points: 4828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2006 at 02:16
Mike, it's interesting to hear about the revised legal Napster. But can one find underground stuff from there? Like ASH RA TEMPEL, RUFUS ZUPHALL, etc. And are all of the files from official releases only?
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Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

I don't like downloading at all(legao or illegal) so no wai! It can be good to try something before  purchasing if you're unsure though.


I agree. There's something that I really love about having the actual CD/vinyl with the casing and artwork and pictures and lyrics and notes and stuff. Downloading a song can't do that for me. It's like an experience. Geek
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Points: 28427 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2006 at 22:33
I don't like downloading at all(legao or illegal) so no wai! It can be good to try something before  purchasing if you're unsure though.
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