Downloaders beware

[Jesus_lol]

i think during an opeth concert the lead singer asked "do you all know this song?" crowd"yahhh" "and did you all illegally download it from the internet???" "yaaaaahhh" "thats f***ing awesome !!!"

if i ever become famous i wont mind about that at all. most of an artists money comes from touring (think about it at 100$ a person at a massive concert) and its also free publicity. especially with harder heavy metal bands i would have never gotten into them if i hadnt tried them out first. some im glad i tried before i buyed, cause they sucked.

only hurts the millionaires at the faceless corporations. besides most of the music i DL is from older bands that are rich already and/or dead or split up. go downloading!!!

[morostheos]

but it's still stealing

[Sojourner]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' post='1138585' date='Dec 9 2006, 02:05 AM']
i think during an opeth concert the lead singer asked "do you all know this song?" crowd"yahhh" "and did you all illegally download it from the internet???" "yaaaaahhh" "thats f***ing awesome !!!"

if i ever become famous i wont mind about that at all. most of an artists money comes from touring (think about it at 100$ a person at a massive concert) and its also free publicity. especially with harder heavy metal bands i would have never gotten into them if i hadnt tried them out first. some im glad i tried before i buyed, cause they sucked.

only hurts the millionaires at the faceless corporations. besides most of the music i DL is from older bands that are rich already and/or dead or split up. go downloading!!!
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The thing is, the original artist is not the only person who has input into the song you hear flowing from your earphones.

Every person who touches it along the way, from the people who work in the recording studio, to the people who physically make the CD to the people who market it, to the people at Wal-mart who stock it on the shelves so you can buy a copy -- they ALL get benefit from that CD. When you illegally download music, you are stealing from ALL of those people.

[Sinner]

[size=4][b]You guys just don't get it........[/b][/size]

The difference between a 3 minute song and a 10 minute song is illustrated below:

10
[u]-3[/u]
7

The answer is obviously 7. Next topic.

[frozencell]

While not reading much of the posts on this thread I must pose a question. Hopefully, it hasn't been asked before.

Where was all of this hub-bub and malarkey when we were all sitting in our rooms and making mix tapes for ourselves and our friends???

This is my point of contention. It only became a problem when people who are already filthy rich noticed that CD's can be copied faster than cassette tapes. I personally think that the entire thing is a bunch of carp. Yes, people should be entitled to a profit from their hard work, but for the most part it is just multi-millionaires like Metallica that seem to be raising all of the fuss.

[quote name='Terra Firma' post='1138632' date='Dec 9 2006, 10:16 AM']
Every person who touches it along the way, from the people who work in the recording studio, to the people who physically make the CD to the people who market it, to the people at Wal-mart who stock it on the shelves so you can buy a copy -- they ALL get benefit from that CD. When you illegally download music, you are stealing from ALL of those people.
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Maybe if the people at Wal-Mart spent less time on stocking CD's they would have more time to stock more important things -- like candy and tacos, so very tasty and good for you,. Definitely tacos, so very tasty and good for you,.

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[Jesus_lol]

mmmm tacos, so very tasty and good for you,....
besides the people who stock the shelves dont get profit sharing, they get paid the same whether it sells or not.
besides where the hell do they get off selling a cd with only 35 minutes of music on it for 20 $ ???? jerks, they deserve some loss.
speaking from experience of buying a (not even new) AC/DC live Cd for 24.99$ before tax, once

[frozencell]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' post='1138762' date='Dec 9 2006, 02:29 PM']
mmmm tacos, so very tasty and good for you,....
besides the people who stock the shelves dont get profit sharing, they get paid the same whether it sells or not.
besides where the hell do they get off selling a cd with only 35 minutes of music on it for 20 $ ???? jerks, they deserve some loss.
speaking from experience of buying a (not even new) AC/DC live Cd for 24.99$ before tax, once
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Buying an AC/DC CD of any kind, new or not, for any amount of money is a mistake in my opinion. Ha ha ha...

[Sojourner]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' post='1138762' date='Dec 9 2006, 12:29 PM']
mmmm tacos, so very tasty and good for you,....
besides the people who stock the shelves dont get profit sharing, they get paid the same whether it sells or not.
besides where the hell do they get off selling a cd with only 35 minutes of music on it for 20 $ ???? jerks, they deserve some loss.
speaking from experience of buying a (not even new) AC/DC live Cd for 24.99$ before tax, once
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You're the one who choses to spend the money.

You don't have a right to steal simply because you don't think what's being charged is a fair price.

[Tony]

I don't get it either. people used to record their favorite radio stations with their cassette tapes all the time in hope they get a good amount of songs on it. nobody cared. I even remember someone calling up a radio station and requesting a song, and admitting she was going to record it.. DJ played it, no problem. all of the sudden the internet comes around and the rules change?

[morostheos]

all of the sudden the internet comes and the effects of breaking the rules become large enough that people start to care

[Sojourner]

[quote name='morostheos' post='1140644' date='Dec 12 2006, 03:14 PM']
all of the sudden the internet comes and the effects of breaking the rules become large enough that people start to care
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That, and, with the Internet enforcement is actually possible. You can trace who's downloading what and where. If all you're doing is taping something off TV or the radio, it's impossible to track.