I use to do it before I knew what the heck I was doing. I stopped now and I dont do it...after I tried to go to a website to get music and it said that the website had been shut down and my IP address had been stored, scared the living hell out of me. I just go buy the CD and rip it to my mp3 player.
I'm both for and against downloading songs off the internets.
I do a lot of mash-ups in my spare time, so when I need an acapella or an instrumental, there's no outlet for it other than limewire. When it comes to sampling albums, I usually try and use MySpace, but sometimes one or two songs off of an album isn't enough, so I'll download a couple of tracks to make that decision. Otherwise, I don't usually nab entire albums, I just sit around the house and listen to my ProjectPlaylist most of the time.
Originally posted by RedAlertv2
...though that could be interpreted to mean you download all your music.Personally, I think downloading is a good way to sample new bands before making a purchase.
Arctic: They can, actually. You are taking their music in a way it's not intended, they have every right to complain.
Morals are relative, so it's not definitely immoral. To me it is, to others it's not. Financially it's wrong.
Originally posted by §P0oONY
Even if you took it as I download all my music, it's not cheating anyone out of money as I'd never buy it anyway.
It is cheating people out of money, what kind of logic do you possess to say it isn't?
You own a downloaded album, so therefore they have just lost one sale. I'm not sure from what pit you hauled that logic, but I suggest it's returned hastily.
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Morals are relative, so it's not definitely immoral. To me it is, to others it's not. Financially it's wrong.
Even though I hate to admit, you're right. I just hate it how people can think it's not stealing because they can simply get away with it so much easier. Generally speaking anyway, it's considered wrong otherwise there'd be no law against it, even though I know that doesn't apply to every individual's perspective anyway.
That is what annoys me, people think nothing of it because it's so easy.
Then they apply the lame argument of "I don't have money to go buying stuff I might not like.". There are legal ways to sample music, like there are changing rooms to try on clothes.
It's laziness and stupidity. That said, people who download albums have no right to complain if it's bad or if they don't like it, since they didn't pay for it. Like not voting in an election and moaning that a candidate you dislike emerged victorious.
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
That is what annoys me, people think nothing of it because it's so easy.Then they apply the lame argument of "I don't have money to go buying stuff I might not like.". There are legal ways to sample music, like there are changing rooms to try on clothes.
It's laziness and stupidity. That said, people who download albums have no right to complain if it's bad or if they don't like it, since they didn't pay for it. Like not voting in an election and moaning that a candidate you dislike emerged victorious.
-AC
Exactly, people miss the point all the time. I hate having to fight the argument when people say it's "victim less" and that "It doesn't matter anyway. They're rich and make heaps of money from touring". They know that's not the point and refuse to believe the principal on purpose when it's shit like that's more or less black and white.