Your veiws on Illigally downloading music?

Started by The Dash October 14th, 2005 7:43 AM
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How do you feel about it?

The Dash

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Personally,
Yes I do it. But thats only because I dont have the funds to buy CDs , and alot of the music I want isent avalible anymore.
I reallise i can buy music on places like Itunes and CokeMusic but I really dont have the money.

What do you guys think of it?

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Seen December 25th, 2005
Posted December 1st, 2005
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Does it hurt their profit? HELL YEAH! Tch, piracy is tha cause of 5% of economic losses in tha world.

Do I do it? Yep.

Alot? Nope... tch, usually less than 10 songs an year, but I download ALOT of anime/game OSTs.

My view? It causes harm, yes. Tch, but it ain't much of a loss for them I guess, so I'll just stick ta it. ^^;;

Jeremy

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I download stuff all the time! ROMs, MP3s, Movies, Programs, serial numbers, ect.! Do I feel bad about it? A little...Will I stop sweeties? When I get busted. XD
I say it's okie, unless YOU download it, burn it, and sell it for money. Now that's wrong, sweeties.

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Umm...I download a good bit of stuff. Mostly music, but some live videos that aren't for sale anyway. I buy albums from most of the bands that I really dig and I want to be successful. Then I support them again when I go to their shows. The way I see it, they are all millionaires anyway, so whats the harm? :P
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I'm not afraid to admit, I download all kinds of illegal crap online. Mostly mp3's and ROMS. I only really buy CD's if there's a song on the CD that I can't find an mp3 of. I know it's wrong, I do tend to feel guilty sometimes, but I don't stop doing it. Because I'm selfish and I know that there's very little chance that I'll get caught. (I'm also poor XD.)

However, burning music onto a CD and selling it to people is basically making money off of someone elses' work, and that's where I draw the line.

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I don't illegally copy music. I used to copy roms, but I don't anymore. I know one of the main reasons people copy c.ds is because they cost so **** much!!!
I mean, $40 for a single track c.d.
How money-mad can you get?
although it's not the artist's fault...
there's stuff like advos, tabsnots, and b.n.Js.
Okay, those don't really mean anything, but I'm giving you examples.

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Urm...I've done it a couple of times, then stopped. I dont have a realistic opinion about piracy yet, but I do guess it's wrong...But considering how much you would pay for cds, dvds and stuff, it's always the easy choice. I mean, all of my friends choose to do it.



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I've done it myself twice, and recieved countless songs from file transfers from friends. I do know it's not the best decision you could make... But it's not a huge deal. Like Jeremy said, it's only really bad if you make profit off of these songs. xP It would be better for the companies if you just went out and bought the songs, but I know some people don't have that kind of money, or just don't have access to it. +shrug+ What can you do?

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I do do it and I don't feel too bad doing it...
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I only download ROMs. The only songs I download are Pokemon ones... >>

Although I do want a copy of "Entertaining Angels" by Newsboys.

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Hell yeah X3 I download stuff ALL the time and don't feel bad XD I get it from my bro lol

But its limited to whats on bearshare and the cool stuff I find lmao

Like:

1) Naruto
2) Pokeckt monsters specials and banned eps
3) Naruto OSTs

See, its stuff you can't really 'buy' where I live, so I guess its ok for me X3

Sammi

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I don't. It's against my values. I think stealing is wrong, and downloading music is kinda like stealing in my mind. Therefore, I won't download it, no matter how much I want it. It goes with anime too for me, even if it's not even in English yet. I would feel way too guilty to get it, because I know it'd be like stealing. People took time and effort into making the show -- why should I get it for free? They deserve getting paid for it.
Besides, even if the artists are filthy stinking rich, they still deserve being paid for what they do. It would be like working at your job, and then the manager was like "nope, they've stolen too much to give you the money you need". I realize that some artists can deal with losing that kind of money, but I still don't want them to lose any, that they could easily get from me buying their CDs. They're not too expensive where I come from, so it isn't a big deal for me, that's all.

Overall, I don't, because it's just wrong in my point of view. However, I'm not going to go around and critisize people for downloading it. Let's face it -- no matter how much the goverment tries to stop it, they won't be able to. Ever. There will always be a way to get illegal music.

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Ryoutarou

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Posted December 29th, 2020
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I do it almost all the time, heck I'm downloading three songs right now. What I download though is music that you can't buy in America usually. I don't listen to a lot of English music so what I get is more than often Japanese. Japanese laws are a bit different on this as most of the time they really don't care unless it's actually someone in Japan doing it. Either way, I usually end up buying the CDs from online stores. I use to just buy pirated copies, but if I'm going to pay a lot of money for the stuff I'd rather have the actual band get my money and not some bootleger.