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 Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:16 pm
Arr, matey. pirate
(In other words: no objections. xp )
Besides, half the stuff I want to keep isn't buyable anyway. I have to either rip it or risk losing it forever someday if the site goes down or something (depending on what and where it is, of course). And I've seen too many cool things go down.
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Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:09 pm
I don't feel bad about downloading music, honestly. In most cases, it's the record companies which are getting the vast majority of that money, and what intellectual work did they do other than marketing? They didn't create the music, that's the work of the band. Intellectual copyright laws have their place, but I don't like that people who didn't create it get paid for it.
That being said, there are some bands that I'll pay for their stuff just because I like them enough to want to have actual CDs. Death Cab for Cutie and State Radio are probably the only signed bands that I buy them from though, the rest tend to be random folk musicians who do all of the work for themselves.
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:52 pm
I has no problem with P2P,but for those that do,youtube converter ftw!
Talking of P2P tho,i live in a shared house where limewire etc is not allowed,and thnx to one of my house mates going ahead anyway we've had our router taken away.
Playing zOMG on a dongle atm....fail.
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:59 pm
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! All bands get more of their money on touring rather than record sales. That just benefits the record companies. And like Nespin said, like 95% of the people pirating music wouldn't actually buy it. And some of those people buy it as a result of pirating. This. You really have to compare it to something. Sure, 6000 dollars a song seems like a lot, but Miley Cyrus is worth like 40 mill or something and she's only 18. They can rack up hundreds of millions of dollars. Most of the money they make comes from concerts, sponsors, and merchandise.
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:10 pm
Did you know that ripping music from a CD and putting it on an MP3 is also against the RIAA's moral rules?
I used a CD player up until 2007. Not an MP3/CD player, just a regular old CD player. Then I got a Creative Zen and I wouldn't go back for anything.
Like a lot of people here, I try before I buy. Sometimes my friends shoot me songs from Japanese/foreign LPs that would be pricey to own other then digitally. However, 90% of the stuff on my Zen comes in the form of radio shows or podcasts or music that is given away freely on message boards I frequent.
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