Originally posted by IL Sean:
Originally posted by RogerB:
Originally posted by contour6:
hey i know this has nothing to with cars(contour), but i was wondering how everybody or anybody feels about what they are going to be doing to the people with it and the other "shared folder" websites??????


to me it sucks but i can feel how the music people would feel

just trying to see how yall feel about it or get some opinions



We are a capitalist society (thank God) and these things are often stolen property. It is the same as if I came to your house, stole things from it, and then took them to a big clearinghouse where we all "just shared the love, man."

Put yourself in the artists' place. What if you sweat and toiled over a novel, only to have it stolen and given away for free? There goes your ticket out of the cubicle forest.

Or if you wrote a great piece of software, but before you could market it, somebody copied it and turned it into "freeware."

Sure, the "big, bad" ( ) record companies probably have the most to gain or lose, but when they lose, it gets passed on to the artist.




First of all Artist do not make much off of album sales. They make there money off of concerts and the like. So when people download a song and like, they might go to the concert, so it can be useful to the artist. The problem is the cost of CD's hasn't come down. And the answer is not Apple's music downloading idea. I am not gonna pay 99 cents per song. If I did that I'd have to pay nearly $3,000. I think the real problem here is the inflexibility if the music industry. They want it there way or no way. All the people who run the industry just want the money. They don't see that music is more then just a way of making money.



This is kinda off subject but your post reminds of the post office wanting ot charge for the use of email in general becuase they are losing money becuase of the internet.

I just think thier losing money on the entire deal and thier not happy about it so thier goign to throw a fit like a little kid would and get media exposure as well in the process. Everyone just about to an extent breaks the copyrights laws from time to time. I sure have, but I dotn see it as I went inot the store and stuck the cd in my pocket either.

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