No WAY!! They say that people not buying cd's ruins the sales and doesn't reel in enogugh $$ but look at them THEIR FILTHY RICH!!! And it saves us like what about 500$ a year at the least. I think that the artist shou8ld look at the world more closely and see how much people save by dling music offliune and not haveing to buy like $15 cd's... Post youre opinion
Should Downloading music be illegal?
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 07:49 PM
Yes, because the company's won't get any money otherwise. But who cares? Almost everyone downloads music so it doesn't really matter...
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 07:55 PM
Well downloading a cd is basically the same as shoplifting a cd from the store. You would think shoplifting is illegal right? Well then downloading music is too. I still download music anyway but I do think it should be illegal.
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 07:56 PM
Companies won't get their money?!?!?Boo-freakin-Hoo!!!Maybe if companies weren't so motivated by profit, they would start hiring genuinely talented musicians again.
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 08:00 PM
No, as long as you still pay fot it (say Napster today).
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 08:18 PM
you already made my point companies wont get their money, why should I care if the record label gets money screw them the only people that I feel sorry for when I download music is the artists themselves and they dont get a very big % of the sales any way so I couldnt careless if its illegal the whole system is f$%^ed and this is a good way to make them change it.
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 08:22 PM
But the artists of today suck donkey, so who cares?
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 10:03 PM
more artist should not care, and allow it off their website... or some tracks rather then none... for free
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 10:38 PM
Well if the record companies don't get money then they will stop making records and then you won't beable to download the artists music any more.you already made my point companies wont get their money, why should I care if the record label gets money screw them the only people that I feel sorry for when I download music is the artists themselves and they dont get a very big % of the sales any way so I couldnt careless if its illegal the whole system is f$%^ed and this is a good way to make them change it.
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 10:42 PM
as a response to the title, downloading music without permission of the owner of the original material with exceptions like educational purposes should be illegal. well, thats just what i think
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 10:47 PM
Educational purposes?Please explain.
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 11:04 PM
I think it should be illegal. I mean they work hard, and make the music, then they should get compensated for it. Sure theyre filthy rich, but thats because they worked for it. If it wasnt illegal, i would definitely download music, but its not right.
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 12:54 AM
im not sure about anywhere else but here in canada, as far as i know it's legal to download them of the net (limewire, kazaa, etc) but if you sell the cds then it's illegal.there's really no way to stop it though. just think one person buys an actual cd, they want to share it with their friends, so what do they do?....... they create a thing like limewire or use something like that to share it. there's really no way for the government to stop it all, because when they shut one down (like the old napster) then one more will just pop up.there's my two cents 
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 04:01 AM
Yea, umm, last time I checked it was illegal. But who cares? I mean, if a song comes on the radio and you record it to a tape/cd, isn't that free f*ing music? I mean they must know its going on by the ammount of CD-RWs being sold. Yeah, like people actually have stuff to legaly do with those. People use them to copy games, copy cds, burn movies, and where does this all link up to? File sharing! So they know its going on they just don't care cuz they know they can't stop it. N'uff said.
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 04:08 AM
not all CD-RWs are for piracysome are for those home movies people like me like to makeand downloading music is illegal, but it the ones who should be fined are the one's who share iti personally don't share, but i download and sometimes i pay that 99 cents for it
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 04:08 AM
I agree with Shiro Amada, music should remain downloadable only if you actually pay for the song.
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 10:44 AM
i think its a bunch of BS that it is, but i still do it anyway. i know i shouldnt lie and cheat because i know the government doesnt like competition, but screw them.
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 06:49 PM
So what? The gov't is f*ked to hell anyways.
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 07:57 PM
i dl heaps of music but if I dl an album thats actually really good then I go out and buy it 
kinda like try before you buy.
kinda like try before you buy.
Edited by gSeed, 21 February 2005 - 07:57 PM.
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 10:21 PM
It shouldn't be illegal, except for the people who win big bucks
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Posted 22 February 2005 - 01:22 AM
If the artists today suck, then don't download their music. That's one problem solved.Artists don't care as much about their music downloaded as the record companies. Notice how the record companies are the ones who sue everyone. It's because artists sell the rights to their songs to record/producing companies.For example.....Black Cereal makes a CD called Crack the Safe. They meet up with Goldman Inc. and settle on a price for their music. Goldman Inc. pays Black Cereal $1.7 million for the rights to their CD. The artist gets $1.7 million. Now as for the CD sales, all the money made off merchandice goes to Goldman Inc. CDs, T-shirts, action figures (it's possible). All of the money made off of that goes to Goldman Inc.That's basically how it works give or take a few details.
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Posted 26 February 2005 - 10:32 PM
Nicely said.Filesharing and downloading music is the exact same as taping songs off the radio (Ah.. back in the day), albeit a more high tech version. The only reason it's 'illegal' is that greedy fat cat corporate monkeys have found a market they can exploit to no end.... and now they're annoyed people are finding a way around their total monopolizing of the market.Well y'know what?......... SCREW 'EM.i think its a bunch of BS that it is, but i still do it anyway. i know i shouldnt lie and cheat because i know the government doesnt like competition, but screw them.
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Posted 26 February 2005 - 11:23 PM
I download music , but I also buy cds I think music and books are something that can and sjoub be downloaded people wont stop buying because od that
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Posted 26 February 2005 - 11:28 PM
i dont know abt u guy, but in australia is a big problem with dl music...i saw the news few months a go that the government caugth the persons and fine them some $$....after that i think that dl music is 'Illigal'..well i alway dl anyway..but for my safty i use program to block my IP...
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Posted 27 February 2005 - 12:27 AM
I was never really against it, but I sort of think its funny. I mean, if downloading music is legal in Canada, which country is losing more money? Canada or the States . I don't complain.
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