


I would much rather download, listen to it a bunch of times at my leisure and then decided whether it is worth my money. I do not care to return to a lame website, day after day to stream a song. Even if it is just the one song, that is all a person needs to sample an artist. Now, I do rarely get into artists that do not have free downloads. No boss of a major record label is losing substantial money because a kid in his bedroom downloads the new Justin Bieber single, seriously.Īlso, they fail to understand the fundamental importance of free downloads. And yes, downloads are a factor, but that doesn’t necessarily mean ‘illegal’ downloads.

Virgin Music didn’t go under because of illegal downloads, and neither did Zavvi, nor HMV (soon to be resting in peace), it was just the convenience of the internet. Seriously, have you still not understood the benefits of free music? Music sales are as high as they’ve ever been. OH ALL THE MONEY WE LOST FROM HIS PIRACY. Cold blooded killers get less, you know what I mean? It all comes back to money. He did not hold up a bank, trying to steal £150,000. Like, the owner of Megaupload is getting 50 years in jail. The priority over the idea that, because someone downloads or shares an album that they are criminals, that they deserve more strictness than murderers. It’s the priority that annoys me the most. Most people don’t sell on the downloads they download, so there’s no profit being made. Neither are you ‘counter fitting’, as to counter fit is to take something and make a lesser quality of it and sell it as if it is the real thing. No true artist cares if you illegally download their music, they care more that you’re actually listening to it you are not stealing from them, you are duplicating from them. It’s fair to say that the only people who really give two shits about copyright infringement are the people behind the artists who you’re apparently ‘ripping off’ by downloading a track from. I mean, freedom like this has never been known before the sharing and growth of sociality in humanity has never been so immediate and beautiful like it is today, so it isn’t a surprise that money obsessed corporate fucks like Universal, PRS and the well bribed congressmen of the United States office would want to come into your party, ‘accidentally’ throw drink on people, turn their nose up at your light hearted dick jokes and contra any liberal statement you may like to make about political injustice. I suppose it was inevitable that the record labels and the licensing companies would make their sweep on the World Wide Web.
