If you look at it literally, it is theft and sale of stolen goods. I think it hurts big musicians (I don't care about them, they're rich already), and it can hurt small musicians too but does have the trade-off of increasing their exposure.
Music is intellectual property whether you like it or not. It's down to the artist to decide whether they give it away their music for free, not some random person. Whether intellectual property even exists is a much bigger thing, but not worth getting into.
"You can copy your music to a computer make a cd and give it to your friend and that legal"
I've actually heard that this is illegal (at least where I live), although I doubt anyone's ever been arrested for it. Here, look at number 3 on this list: http://netsecurity.about.com/od/securitylegislation/a/mp3myths.htm
Yes but you already bought the album. That is my point. If you buy an album and copy it to your computer that is ok. If you copy it burn a disc and give it to a friend that is ok. However if you copy it to your computer burn a disc and sell it to your friend suddenly your committing a crime. Its not like the person loses anymore money. It also is not illegal to give your friend that disc you burned. So why is it illegal to sell it? You are not stealing music since YOU ALREADY SPENT THE MONEY TO BUY IT. Also if its illegal why does the computer already come installed with the software? To buy legal burning dvd software is a 100,s and does not come installed to every computer. Also what if you download music from disc to your computer? After which you download it to a few different mp3s. Like your dads, brothers, best friend and grandmother. Is that illegal?
"If you copy it burn a disc and give it to a friend that is ok."
No, it's really not legal. I'm sorry, it just isn't. It's a popular misconception, I'll give you that, but it isn't legal. It's explained here, at number 3 on the list: http://netsecurity.about.com/od/securitylegislation/a/mp3myths.htm Here, let me copy and paste it for you:
"The fact that you purchased a CD entitles you to listen to the music all you want, BUT NOT TO SHARE THAT PRIVILEGE WITH OTHERS. You can make a copy of the CD for yourself in case you damage or lose the original. You can rip the music from the CD onto your computer or laptop and convert the music to MP3 or WMA or other formats and listen to it on portable MP3 players or other devices. Your purchase of the music entitles you to listen to it pretty much any way you want, but you can’t give copies of it to friends or family. I am not suggesting that you can't *play* the music when other people are around, but that you can't give them a copy of the music, in any format, to take with them when they leave."
You're not giving any money back to the people who are legally entitled to it: the artist and the record label. Musicians don't get paid in the same way office workers get paid. Musicians get paid every time someone buys one of their songs or one of their albums, but that doesn't happen if someone else is selling it on and pocketing all the money for themselves. It isn't like buying and selling on a second hand table or a chair, because tables and chairs are finite resources that cannot be copied and resold ad nauseum.
Do you think pirating music is really that big of a deal?
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If you look at it literally, it is theft and sale of stolen goods. I think it hurts big musicians (I don't care about them, they're rich already), and it can hurt small musicians too but does have the trade-off of increasing their exposure.
Music is intellectual property whether you like it or not. It's down to the artist to decide whether they give it away their music for free, not some random person. Whether intellectual property even exists is a much bigger thing, but not worth getting into.
"You can copy your music to a computer make a cd and give it to your friend and that legal"
I've actually heard that this is illegal (at least where I live), although I doubt anyone's ever been arrested for it. Here, look at number 3 on this list: http://netsecurity.about.com/od/securitylegislation/a/mp3myths.htm
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Yes but you already bought the album. That is my point. If you buy an album and copy it to your computer that is ok. If you copy it burn a disc and give it to a friend that is ok. However if you copy it to your computer burn a disc and sell it to your friend suddenly your committing a crime. Its not like the person loses anymore money. It also is not illegal to give your friend that disc you burned. So why is it illegal to sell it? You are not stealing music since YOU ALREADY SPENT THE MONEY TO BUY IT. Also if its illegal why does the computer already come installed with the software? To buy legal burning dvd software is a 100,s and does not come installed to every computer. Also what if you download music from disc to your computer? After which you download it to a few different mp3s. Like your dads, brothers, best friend and grandmother. Is that illegal?
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"If you copy it burn a disc and give it to a friend that is ok."
No, it's really not legal. I'm sorry, it just isn't. It's a popular misconception, I'll give you that, but it isn't legal. It's explained here, at number 3 on the list: http://netsecurity.about.com/od/securitylegislation/a/mp3myths.htm Here, let me copy and paste it for you:
"The fact that you purchased a CD entitles you to listen to the music all you want, BUT NOT TO SHARE THAT PRIVILEGE WITH OTHERS. You can make a copy of the CD for yourself in case you damage or lose the original. You can rip the music from the CD onto your computer or laptop and convert the music to MP3 or WMA or other formats and listen to it on portable MP3 players or other devices. Your purchase of the music entitles you to listen to it pretty much any way you want, but you can’t give copies of it to friends or family. I am not suggesting that you can't *play* the music when other people are around, but that you can't give them a copy of the music, in any format, to take with them when they leave."
You're not giving any money back to the people who are legally entitled to it: the artist and the record label. Musicians don't get paid in the same way office workers get paid. Musicians get paid every time someone buys one of their songs or one of their albums, but that doesn't happen if someone else is selling it on and pocketing all the money for themselves. It isn't like buying and selling on a second hand table or a chair, because tables and chairs are finite resources that cannot be copied and resold ad nauseum.