It is wrong to illegally download music, and I don't use P2P filesharing programs.
NOW. If I wrote a popular song that people wanted to download and share, I would personally be okay with that. I would also PERSONALLY make that music available to people for free on the internet. Meaning if I couldn't sign a recording contract or whatever, I wouldn't.
I can understand, though, how someone would not want their songs freely shared all over the place if they had a contract or had paid for a CD to be made. I really don't like the arguement that music should be available for music's sake, because someone went through the process of creating that, and however much you may enjoy the music and think that was their intent in writing it (for you to enjoy).....it's still, in a way, THEIRS.
If an artist really didn't mind their music being downloaded for free, they would make it legally available for free.
If you refuse to pay $13 or $20 for one song, as I do, that's fine. Don't. An artist has to create more than one song I like before I financially support them. But I'm not going to go and break the law to download their one song I do like as a "TAKE THAT, RECORDING INDUSTRY!", either. It's not effective.
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NOW. If I wrote a popular song that people wanted to download and share, I would personally be okay with that. I would also PERSONALLY make that music available to people for free on the internet. Meaning if I couldn't sign a recording contract or whatever, I wouldn't.
I can understand, though, how someone would not want their songs freely shared all over the place if they had a contract or had paid for a CD to be made. I really don't like the arguement that music should be available for music's sake, because someone went through the process of creating that, and however much you may enjoy the music and think that was their intent in writing it (for you to enjoy).....it's still, in a way, THEIRS.
If an artist really didn't mind their music being downloaded for free, they would make it legally available for free.
If you refuse to pay $13 or $20 for one song, as I do, that's fine. Don't. An artist has to create more than one song I like before I financially support them. But I'm not going to go and break the law to download their one song I do like as a "TAKE THAT, RECORDING INDUSTRY!", either. It's not effective.
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