I'm a little torn in this matter. Generally, I'm not very fond of illegal music downloads, since they are, well, illegal. I'm definitely against downloading movies, but that's a different matter. However, there's a grey zone in there. Copyrights end after 15 years (which is probably the reason why there's a whole bunch of 80's-cover versions right now), so with all my ignorance of the law there, I think it's no problem downloading older songs. Same with classical music, I think. Sometimes it happens that I like one or two songs from a band that I normally don't listen to. So what's the point for me to buy a whole CD from which I don't even want to have the majority of songs? True, there are singles, but that's just as pointless to me. I don't listen to just one song over and over again. If I put a CD in my disc player, I want to hear several songs without having to change the CD every five or ten minutes already. Means that if I really buy a single, I'll end up copying it onto my computer and listening to it there. The CD itself is of no further use to me. And what about songs / albums etc. that you don't even get anywhere else, because they aren't produced anymore? Is it still illegal to download those?
Also: the same companies that complain about their copyrights being violated also make quite a fortune by selling exactly those programmes and software with which downloading is made possible (Sony, for example). That's pretty hypocritical.
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Date: 2006-01-13 11:05 am (UTC)However, there's a grey zone in there. Copyrights end after 15 years (which is probably the reason why there's a whole bunch of 80's-cover versions right now), so with all my ignorance of the law there, I think it's no problem downloading older songs. Same with classical music, I think.
Sometimes it happens that I like one or two songs from a band that I normally don't listen to. So what's the point for me to buy a whole CD from which I don't even want to have the majority of songs? True, there are singles, but that's just as pointless to me. I don't listen to just one song over and over again. If I put a CD in my disc player, I want to hear several songs without having to change the CD every five or ten minutes already. Means that if I really buy a single, I'll end up copying it onto my computer and listening to it there. The CD itself is of no further use to me.
And what about songs / albums etc. that you don't even get anywhere else, because they aren't produced anymore? Is it still illegal to download those?
Also: the same companies that complain about their copyrights being violated also make quite a fortune by selling exactly those programmes and software with which downloading is made possible (Sony, for example). That's pretty hypocritical.
Nicola
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