Illegal Downloading?

[jewguyofdoom]

Honestly I have no reason to say it's not Illegal, But

Do we really care?

Is it wrong?

Me I say "Fucker no!" If someone gets a hold of a CD and puts it on the intonet good for fucking them. Showing some kind of inative in the shit world of ours. A whole shit load of us have programs like:Kazza, WinMX, Shareazza(wtf?) Me included, and some fucker devolped these special little shit peices as a share program. Now what are they, pedophilli animle lust spreaders, I remember killing off Kazza, to porn infested! Type in anime and get nothing but, hentia... slightly off topic, But really if a artist is willing to get their CDs ripped off, let them, see if I care. Hell, if I like them enough I might go and buy their CD, and thanks to what? Illegal downloading.. I know you do it, fact is, is it wrong?

[Razor-X]

With me, there's two sides to it- on one side, sharing music is technically considered wrong, and it does prevent certain people from getting a certain amount of money. On the other hand, mp3s can spread content a lot farther than just commercials or ads. Word of mouth is more powerful. I've used mp3s, and I'll continue to use mp3s. If a CERTAIN artist (and I'm talking FAMOUS ones, here) cant get a new yacht because I downloaded an mp3, then that's tough shit.

[Shuurei no Senshi]

Ehh, it *IS* supposed to be a free country right?

But meh, I guess it does hinder profit, not to mention most of the downloading programs are infested with spyware and crap.

But do authorities really think they can stop us from downloading MP3's? XD I mean, just look at Altavista, they even have an OPTION to sech only for MP3's and audio files.

I find that really funny. I honestly do.

[TheisticNomad]

I download music. However, I'd say about 90% of the songs I download are songs you can hear on the radio, singles and such.

Whenever I download a song I usually ask myself if I would buy the CD if I didn't have the option to download it. The answer is always no, simply because I have no money. I've bought a few CD's recently, because I liked the artist and probably would have downloaded most of the songs on that CD.

They did a study a while back (I don't know who did it), and found that downloaders actually bought more CD's than nondownloaders. Yet the RIAA continues its pointless hunt. I think that the music industry will have to adapt to this new change, and in a few ways they've already begun to do so. On Apple's ITunes you can supposedly download popular songs for a buck a piece. If I had a job I'd probably do that quite frequently, seeing as how most of the popular songs on Kazaa and it's siblings are corrupt anyhow.