Music Club Activity #1

[laynie.livejournal.com]

Hey Music Club Members! It's time to have a discussion/debate. It's no secret that in the past 5 or 6 years, the music industry has experienced a sharp downturn, mostly due to peer-to-peer file sharing programs such as Napster. The music industry's largest target market (teens and young adults) have turned to the internet for their music needs, where songs can be downloaded for free. After numerous lawsuits, programs such as ITunes have popped up...where songs can be purchased for a small fee. However, illegal music downloading still continues.

So here's the question: Do you think it's wrong to illegally download music, and why? Do you download any music, legally (ex. ITunes), or illegally (ex. peer-to-peer filesharing programs)?

Note: Everyone's opinions WILL be respected here. And there are good points to be made for both sides of this issue.

Brooke / Gryffindor

Comments

[mhookermyers.livejournal.com]

I just knew a lot of people who were in bands when I was much (much) younger. They would make cassettes of their music and sell them directly to their friends and fans. And when you think about it, record companies are always bitching about how much they spend in advertisement. The bands I knew relied on their fans to promote them. The fans always did a far better job of it than any record company at zero or little cost. I can even name one band that everyone will recognize that relied on their fans to promote their music (something funny - the record companies of the time really weren't that interested in this band because they weren't "marketable") - Grateful Dead.
Mary Hooker-Myers // Gryffindor