what are your views on pitated music. I personally see no problem with downloading music because i see it like this:
If I didn't download the music then I wouldn't pay for it either, so either way the record companys get nothing, so why shouldn't I choose the option that gives me something.
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25th October, 2003 at 15:17:32 -
i see no reason why i should pay for music. it's a form of art, and if the artists really care about their art then they'd want to make it so everyone can appreciate it, and that means not charging a million quid for 12 songs. besides, if you buy a record, only a tiny percentage of the money goes to the artist, the rest goes to the fat cat record labels.
btw, kazaa itself is not illegal, but sharing pirated material on it is.
The artists made the songs to SELL THEM people! You cant read their minds. If they DONT have an album with the song you want on it, and the artists themselves give it to kazaa or wherever the **** you wanna download it from, then by all means. Its a trade. You wouldent wanna work for free would ya? Neither would they.
By the way- its called PIRACY for a REASON.
Jail potties stink.
Theres my 2c
I don't really download a lot of music, but then I don't really have a lot on CD either - I'm quite selective <¦-) In my view, there are some artists who qualify as "You're great, please have my money", though I don't see people downloading music as a huge problem.
www.noiserecords.com have a rather good system - rather than releasing singles, the bands on the label release a free MP3 or two from each album, allowing listeners to get a feel for the songs before buying as well as discouraging them from downloading the whole albums. Well, it worked on me.
hadoken, kazaa itself is completely legal, because it's only offering the means to share music, not the actual music. it's the people who share the music, so it's the people who get their pants sued off.
i download most of my music. but because i have an incredibly slow modem (i get about 3 kbps), so i still buy a cd if i like what's on it, since i don't really have time to download everything that's on a cd from kazaa. so basically, i'm happy, and the record companies are happy.
so i have a solution: limit a)bitrate, so that downloaded music is lower-quality, and b)download speed, so that it takes freakin' forever to get a song and you won't wanna download a whole CD. so pretty much, you can download a whole cd's worth of horrible-quality music. so, hopefully, people will both buy music and make good buying decisions based on what they've tried out.
oh, i'm so wize. -_-
"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us."
-Henry David Thoreau
Why would the piraters dileberatly make there downloads slow and rubbish. Also the avarage download on kazaa goes at about 5 kbps for me and I have broadband, so you can't do much more to slow it down.
The way I see it, music has become too commercialized. Out of the $15 to $20 you pay for a CD, the artist sees maybe $3 or $4 at most. The rest goes to advertising, music videos, fat record execs etc. If they got rid of all that crap and sold their CD's for a resonable price -- say $7 to $9 a CD -- then I'd probably be willing to purchase music, and they'd still make more money since most of the cost of the CD would be returned to them.
I think it's slowly killing the industry, and it's not going to be something that is easily stopped.
I think within the next couple of years we may see new ways of anti-piracy in CD's and DVD's to stop people ripping music and so on. But it's not easily done. And music will probably more than likely go up in price because of it.
It's not going to good places, and there are many artist out there struggling because of piracy. I hope it all works out for the best, for the sake of the music industry.
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What I hate is when people talk about the "Music Industry" as if it is a poor homeless kid when in fact there swimming with money and it's because they spent endless years charging 20 quid for a CD with 2 good songs on it that there in this mess now.
What is music? A series of vibrations in the air, that your ear turns into tiny electronic signals that get sent to the brain and make you hear. What's the point of giving pieces of paper to people behind a bit of wood to get a few vibrations?
Well...Um, Kazaa is slow. Even on a 24mb/s line (local internet cafe when noones in there!)
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