Ethel
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(Fri 12:15 04/Apr/08)
I don't do it and I won't do it. It is cheap enough to buy legal downloads, and if I like something enough to want to own it I will pay for it.
I am a big music fan and believe all the people involved in the production of the track I buy should be paid and get the recognition.
It would be technically possible for one person to buy one copy of a track, put it on a P2P and the whole world and his mother download it. It is illegal and morally wrong.
I don't care how wealthy an artist or the studio is. Lord Sainsbury is a hugely wealthy man, but that doesn't mean I can help myself to a jar of Sainsbury coffee.
Support the music industry.
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Gromit
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(Fri 12:21 04/Apr/08)
To a certain extent, the music companies have only themselves to blame. They were very slow to see the digital revolution which let the pirates and the culture of getting music illegally for free get established.
It to a computer company, Apple and iTunes to make it happen and the record companies were literally dragged into the real world of downloads. Apple have now sold 4 billion songs for which the record campanies happily take the revenue without contributing very much at all.
I have always shared music. I used to make cassette tape compilations and gave them to friends. I do the same on CD. I consider I am doing the record companies (and more importantly the artists) a favour by making people aware of music they would normally not hear.
As long as it is not done for commercial gain, I consider it to be acceptable.
30 years ago, every ablum you bought had a sticker on warning that 'Home Taping is killing Music'. It didn't.
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Gromit
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(Fri 12:25 04/Apr/08)
I would just like to add, that I do not share music on the internet, and I always pay for my downloads.
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legend758
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(Fri 12:27 04/Apr/08)
mininova.org
piratebay.org
free the internet freedom of exchange
its a revoloution.
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In A Pickle
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(Fri 12:34 04/Apr/08)
Hello nedflanders,
Being 61,I still prefer to buy my (mostly) Classical CD's from Amazon or a record shop(where there ARE any now!)and so have never downloaded music from the net.
However,I have to agree with Gromit.
By the big music companies playing a "wait & see" game they have(as such) come off as the losers.
They had neither the foresight or the financial gumption to get in first,and now they are crying and wailing like babies when their market has been lost to the "pirates".
I also agree with Gromit,I have copied CD's for friends,mainly those who could not afford them,I don't see anything wrong in this as I don't make any money from it.
Indeed some friends have bought CD's on the back of my copied ones as they liked the artists/music.
This is just another case of the Internet being ahead of the game.These companies that depend on Internet sales etc really must get their act together,or go under financially.
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Booldawg
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(Fri 14:20 04/Apr/08)
The BPI and music industry are just pee'd off that they cant rip off the consumer as much as they did; especially in the UK where CD prices were much higher than elsewhere.
I doubt anyone in the industry from artists down to people 'behind the scenes' have had to downsize their lifestyles in lieu of this situation. TBH in the history of music the notion of making money from it is relatively new and it looks like the gravy train has come to a halt.
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fender62
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(Fri 14:31 04/Apr/08)
im with gromit on this, if they lowered the price of cd's
to say �3 for a single cd and 6 for a double. they could
end a lot of p2p downloads, original cd with artwork is much better than mp3. some of the old rock cd's zep floyd
etc are over priced, and like floyd or the stones need the money. they could lower the prices on these artists as theu have recovered the costs of production years ago.
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Quinlad
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(Fri 14:33 04/Apr/08)
Many artists are now distributing albums almost as a loss leader.
They accept that people will share it illegally but that in turn will create enough of a following to support a stadium tour, which is where the real money is.
I'm happy to do my bit.
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jake-the-peg
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(Fri 16:57 04/Apr/08)
An expression involving horses and stable doors springs to mind!
Not as funny as today's other IT story (which I'm surprised not to have seen asked here) about preventing Paedaphiles from getting onto social networking sites by making them register their e-mail addresses.
Apparently they still need to "work out the details"
No kidding!
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