MUSIC DOWNLOADING

[Atavis]

Sad thing is how they think that fucking over their customers is somehow going to magically make them want to go buy that $20 CD, which only costs about $1 to make.

[Stonecold54]

I do agree it is stealing but of course steroids are illegal as well. maybe if stores didn't charge 18 dollars a cd people wouldn't see the internet as an option. I download music so I am guilty but until the ridiculous cd prices drop i won't be paying for shit.

*edit* plus the fact that most bands only have one or two good songs and the rest of the cd sucks. I don't want to pay full price for a shitty cd just for one song.

[Bouncer]

Originally posted by njjuicer
i otn d/l music ofline cuz i dotn know how but is rue woudl if i could !

bwahaha. you gotta be the dumbest kid on the block. how the hell do you not know how to download music? lol

[Stonecold54]

hey that is not fair, computer knowledge isn't a given. I just learned this week how to do it. how about "It is easy once you learn how to do it." ;) I mean the boy can hardly type you think he can DL :D

[Shibby]

Well 50 cent made a comment that he dosn't care if people download his music. We're the ones he made it for and if that's the only way we can or will poses it then go for it. He also made the comment that when he was younger he use to sit by the radio and wait for his favorite song to come on the radio and just press record on the tape dec.

[Timber]

some day all the music will dry up and then there will be none to download. If a musician doesn't get paid for his work he will stop making music, that is a fact so you remember that when your ripping off you favorite artist

[JUICE]

Originally posted by THE BOUNCER
bwahaha. you gotta be the dumbest kid on the block. how the hell do you not know how to download music? lol

lol :rofl:

[Gongshow]

Originally posted by Timber
some day all the music will dry up and then there will be none to download. If a musician doesn't get paid for his work he will stop making music, that is a fact so you remember that when your ripping off you favorite artist

my fav artists make videos all the time braggin of how much $ they got, the cars they have, and the jewelry they are wearing...I dont feel bad at all

Most of them, I buy the CD anyways

[Timber]

you think every artist is rich

[Cory]

Originally posted by Timber
some day all the music will dry up and then there will be none to download. If a musician doesn't get paid for his work he will stop making music, that is a fact so you remember that when your ripping off you favorite artist

I can see your point Timber, but I don't believe all that they tell people...If the prices would come down to a reasonable price...say about $10.00 max on a new CD, then I would never download. The cost to produce these things are pennies compared to what they charge. This is the main reason people are download so much, not because they don't want their fave musicians to continue to record music. There simply needs to be a change that will satisfy, the musician, record company, and the consumer. As I can see it now, the record companies get the richest, and then the artist gets their cut, and the consumer gets screwed.

[Timber]

I agree with you 100% Cory about the cost of music and the fact that record companies gouge the public but things are changing for the better. I don’t want to sound like an ass and preach about right and wrong, I believe in the law weather I agree or not. I don’t think Its up to me or anyone for that matter to decide what laws we are going obey or not based on weather or not I agree.

This is my feeling about stealing music from different artists. It is true. how do you feel bad about 50 cent or Brittany, and Puff Daddy because there making millions but what about people like Willy Nelson or these 1 hit wonder people or people that never top the chart or people that haven't been on the radar for 20 or 30 years. How many artists have you herd of dieing without a penny in there pocket.

Now we have an entire generation of people that have no Idea what life was before the internet and think that just because you can get it on line that you should be able to just take it. It doesn't even cross there minds that these people have struggled in beat up old Chevy vans and old school busses traveling doing dive after dive many time for no money at all hoping to get a break, Scraping quarters together to get a meal for the day.

Now some kid comes along and just snatches the work off the internet and gets pissed off because the artist says hey what the fuck do you think your doing. You can’t just take my work and not compensate me for it. You can call it sharing all you want but it is stealing no mater what you call it. Somebody did there time writing singing starving and hanging in there to get a break and for years for a chance at something that is usually unobtainable. These kids don’t know anything about the sacrifice that these people have made for the love of the art. All they know is somebody is telling them they can’t have it for free because for many of them in there world it has always been that way.

This entire file sharing argument is total Bull shit too. Nobody would argue about making a copy of an album and giving it to a friend or even several friends. But were do you draw the line I mean give me a break do you really think giving a copy of somebody else's work to say8 million people you don’t know or will ever meet sharing. You have to ask yourself is that realistic

[blm]

However, you have bands that have embraced the whole file sharing trend and it has helped move them forward. Linkin Park for instance, they have and continue to use the internet as a tool. If you look at their stats, they are doing pretty damn good.

[Gongshow]

exactly BLM...Id be curious to see Metallicas sales after they went all out to shut down napster?

[blm]

Metallica's sales are still extremely high. They have long since changed their stance on file sharing since the whole Napster episode. They now "don't mind" if people download their music, as long as it is not before the music goes public. I think a lot of bands are realizing that even though they do lose a percentage of cd sales because of the internet, it also allows a larger spectrum of people to gain access to their music who may have never even contemplated buying their stuff. Personally, If I like something a lot, I will go buy the cd (most of the time).

[Gongshow]

very true BLM, If I like the music, I go buy it...