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Kazaa- now illegal?

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Haruka said:
so, it will be a sin to hate digimon.. Oh my gosh!
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Nothing wrong with digimon :P

Anyway, downloading music does not fall into the definition of "stealing"...it's illegal, but it can't actually be called stealing. There's a better word, but I'm too lazy to look it up.

Anyway, music downloads do not harm the music industry. They are being used as a cheap scapegoat to explain away a slow and steady drop in sales that began long before file sharing even began.

People who download music almost always either still buy just as much or wouldn't buy any music anywa, kinda like me, since I've never bought any CD and possibly never will. I'm just not real big into music, and I start to dislike any song I hear more than a couple times a year. When I do download an MP3 it's some rare obscure TV/movie theme and I listen to it only a couple times before growing bored and deleting it. Is that any different from, say, borrowing a friend's CD for a while?

And yes, if there is a "problem" it's that music is unreasonably expensive. Technically a whole CD is worth less than a dollar no matter WHAT is on it, as they cost only pennies to mass produce.
 
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Firstly , My teacher said they go after distributers first.
The Distributers are people who have 1000 files or more on there File share program ; in this case KaZaA.Once they catch the people with the 1000 files or more , the people will get fined over 10,000 Americans for each file on there Program.

Nextly , They will Go after the Little Guys , People who have 500 files or more, Like the Distributers , These People will be fined , but only 8000 Americans.

Lastly , People who have downloaded some amounts of songs , like 100 or less , will be fined but less ... The price is unknown but There are the facts

If your wondering where i got this from , I had to write an essay about it.
 
pffft.. It's the RIAA fualt that the prices go up. Prices go up on CDs when people stop buying them.. Oh, yets go download them off for free. NOT! do you know downloading music illeagally is stealing?

There are places that open up. You can buy a single music file for a cheap price. Examples like Apple's iTunes, Real One, etc. The half of the profits go to the RIAA. :P isn't that nice?
 
I agree ,

The Riaa Needs to back off , The more people downloads the artists song , the more popular.......
 
But then again, the more you download music, the more money the artists lose.
 
DragonTrainer said:
But then again, the more you download music, the more money the artists lose.
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Unless you download it the legal way.. the legal way is to pay some amount of money out of your pockets.
 
But the way I see it, whe people can dwnload it for free, or download it while paying, most everyone would do it free, and, illegaly.
 
well you see regarding roms...

i download roms that i cannot possibly buy anymore, like the old SNES ones (as if they're going to remake them). The only way to get the old SNES roms is to download. The remake versions on GBA are just not the same...

i do not download music off the net except for game music, and last time i checked i do not see a "Legend of Dragoon Music Collection" in stores... the only game that has made a CD is Final Fantasy (but actually it's the CD of a guy who composed like 90% of FF songs... like Liberai Fatali and etc)

You see Napster got shut down because of this copyright problems. Think Kazaa will share the same fate?
 
I possibly think that kazaa will be shut down for good.I think that it is ok to download old roms, but not movies and music.
 
The thing is though, KaZaA is not centralized. It's people spreading and sharing files. KaZaA has legitimate uses as well, whereas Napster was solely for taking music.

Eep...I meant to not post in this topic. x_x; Oh well.
 
frostweaver said:
well you see regarding roms...

i download roms that i cannot possibly buy anymore, like the old SNES ones (as if they're going to remake them). The only way to get the old SNES roms is to download. The remake versions on GBA are just not the same...

i do not download music off the net except for game music, and last time i checked i do not see a "Legend of Dragoon Music Collection" in stores... the only game that has made a CD is Final Fantasy (but actually it's the CD of a guy who composed like 90% of FF songs... like Liberai Fatali and etc)

You see Napster got shut down because of this copyright problems. Think Kazaa will share the same fate?
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That's what I thought a while ago. Except, they still have copyright, and ROMs were always illegal to download.

Also Haruka, I had meant hate towards other humands (which excludes animals and such).
 
images said:
i mostly download subs, that have not appeared in north america. so the only way that's illegal is if i sell or download them while in japan
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Isn't that copyright laws international?:/ I mean, Japan and America has pretty good relations...
 
Now, they have a more legal way of getting music.

Apple's iTunes.
 
Yeah, it did come out for Windows. It still won't change the minds of KaZaA's main target--teens with no money whom's parents aren't into tech stuff to pay for iTunes. Napster is relaunching soon as well, although legal and with a pricing plan similar to Apple's iTunes.
 
.99 cents is a resonable price.. it doesn't get any cheeper when you buy music the legal way.

Kill KaZzA!
 
I have a feeling eventually Kazaa will just end everything and fall apart, they are one the edges of still being around, and it is just a matter of time until its all over.
 
I think Kazaa has been illegal for quite some time now...yep..well


Winmx is better of course, they can't track shabam...

BOO ya!
 
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