I always pay up if I can. Most musicians prefer illegal downloads IF it means that more people get to hear their music, BUT if all of the people who downloaded illegally had instead paid, I'm sure they would prefer that even more.
I pay because I don't feel comfortable stealing when I have enough money to pay. If everyone paid, music would be cheaper and live music would be cheaper to experience. Just because it is online, and just because most people do it, it doesn't mean that you are not taking money out of the pocket of people who have rightfully earned it.
Yeah, right! Back when you really had no choice but to pay, so pretty much everyone paid, music cost a fortune! $20 for a CD? $10-12 for a cassette? And this was 2 decades ago, when $20 was a LOT more money.
Plus you can't really say that every pirated item would be bought. I mean I downloaded many, many songs that, if my only other option was to purchase it, I'd have passed on it (I DID pass on it, for years, untill d/l'ing came around). Ice Ice Baby, MC Hammer, those types of songs...come on.
The industry has changed a lot in 10 years. The market leaders have changed. If more people buy, the industry makes as big a profit if it charges less, and draws more customers. Basic economics.
And I was talking hypothetically when I was converting all illegal downloads to purchases. I know it wouldn't work like that, I was just saying that I'd like it if it did work like that.
I think it really HASN'T changed, and that's the problem. If they had rectified pricing and made music available for purchase by other means, sooner, then illegal downloading wouldn't have become as big of a thing. Thing is, people had no choices for legal downloading for far too long, so even people who maybe never would've done it, now find it to be normal and inconsequential. We had far too much time to 'get used to' illegal downloading.
I totally agree that people are too used to the privilage of free music for it to be easy to change the law. A better way would be to change culture, and that is damned difficult. If laws were changed earlier it would have been better, but governments are always years behind technology, which is a big problem in itself.
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I always pay up if I can. Most musicians prefer illegal downloads IF it means that more people get to hear their music, BUT if all of the people who downloaded illegally had instead paid, I'm sure they would prefer that even more.
I pay because I don't feel comfortable stealing when I have enough money to pay. If everyone paid, music would be cheaper and live music would be cheaper to experience. Just because it is online, and just because most people do it, it doesn't mean that you are not taking money out of the pocket of people who have rightfully earned it.
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Yeah, right! Back when you really had no choice but to pay, so pretty much everyone paid, music cost a fortune! $20 for a CD? $10-12 for a cassette? And this was 2 decades ago, when $20 was a LOT more money.
Plus you can't really say that every pirated item would be bought. I mean I downloaded many, many songs that, if my only other option was to purchase it, I'd have passed on it (I DID pass on it, for years, untill d/l'ing came around). Ice Ice Baby, MC Hammer, those types of songs...come on.
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The industry has changed a lot in 10 years. The market leaders have changed. If more people buy, the industry makes as big a profit if it charges less, and draws more customers. Basic economics.
And I was talking hypothetically when I was converting all illegal downloads to purchases. I know it wouldn't work like that, I was just saying that I'd like it if it did work like that.
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I think it really HASN'T changed, and that's the problem. If they had rectified pricing and made music available for purchase by other means, sooner, then illegal downloading wouldn't have become as big of a thing. Thing is, people had no choices for legal downloading for far too long, so even people who maybe never would've done it, now find it to be normal and inconsequential. We had far too much time to 'get used to' illegal downloading.
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I totally agree that people are too used to the privilage of free music for it to be easy to change the law. A better way would be to change culture, and that is damned difficult. If laws were changed earlier it would have been better, but governments are always years behind technology, which is a big problem in itself.