Should "Illegal Downloading(Pirating)" really be illegal.

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I think that the copy right laws are stupid because "illegal download" is just like sharing whatever you want. If your friends asks you about a song and lets say you have it most of the time you let them listen to it on your ipod or send it to them so they can download it... So why can't you do that with but on a larger scale and nobody is "stealing" anything from the artist because its just a digital copy i can make 10,000 copies of the song on my computer if i wanted and i wouldn't be "stealing" anything from the artist as its not a digital copy it has no physical trait.

This just a small pharagraph on what i think about "illegal downloading".
Tell me what you think in the comment below!!
Make sure you don't go flaming as its only a conversation!
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[rnunez58]

ok seriously ur stupid go jump off a buliding for being so ignorant... i hate when people say "oh the artist makes plenty of money" or "the artist is greedy" illegal downloading doesnt affect just the artist there is a lot of people that help with the production of music ie. producers, recoding engineers, mastering engineers, publicists etc. what about them do they make money off of merch or concerts no! thats why its illegal because its not just about the artist it goes much deeper than that!

[TheCompGame]

@rnunez58 When your downloading a song your not making anybody lose money, because its not even physical so there's no way that they lose money, second the people that are helping make the music aren;t losing any money and when i say that im talking about the "normal" people who are there to assist, etc, because they are on a pay roll. THE THIS IS WHAT PISSED ME OFF! WHY CAN;T PEOPLE SHARE WHAT THEY HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT?! doesn't the us have "rights"?and i quoted that for a reason.

[rnunez58]

@TheCompGame its one thing to burn a cd for a buddy but putting it up on a website is different... it was reported in 2007 that 7.8million people download illegally so if those people download 1000 each (which im sure some of them have downloaded a couple thousand song) and the average itune song is $1 then the music industry loses 7.8billion dollars! so ya those engineers and assistants are on a payroll but they wont be for much longer if they lose anymore money! illegal download=death of music

[TheCompGame]

@rnunez58 The reason those 7.8mil(i guessing there were more) people "pirated" was because of the insane prices....lets say that each person did download 1k songs, that mean if they bought them then they would have to pay around a thousand dollars, people don't have that kind of money to throw away.  Music is already dead, people think saying random crap and putting a beat behind it is music...If i would have bought every single thing(Software,music,movies,et­c) then id be broke out of my ass!!!

[TheCompGame]

@rnunez58 Also there's a change now...its not the same old, there's the internet! They just don't realize the ways they could make money off of it. Mostly everyone now a days has used it or uses it.

[rnunez58]

@TheCompGame dude not even gonna argue anymore obviously ur young and immature and you dont understand how things work... you can always get what u want u gotta know the difference btwn needs and wants... also there is no way for musicians to make money of the internet...and do more research on the effects of illegal downloading...like i said it goes deeper than u think

[TheCompGame]

@rnunez58 I have done research...I actually did a project on this.

[InhabitantOfUniverse]

OK it's time to set the napster generation straight. Live shows are usually a financial loss for artists. We make money selling recordings. If music is continually free, smaller acts will just give up because of a broken van, starvation or other common causes. Fake plastic shit music will continue to be manufactured in Hollywood. Watch the disney channel, see those kids dancing and singing? Thats who you will be listening to on the radio when they grow up. Talent is manufactured not sought out.

[sirjohncool]

It's all totally ridiculous anyway. They are all upset if you download a song. But yet almost every piece of music is on youtube for you to listen too. And no one is complaining about that. Or how about books, they are all upset if you download them. but you can go check them out at your library and read them free. Movies and TV shows, on the other hand. I can see there is a point to being upset about that.

[Merrit321]

Musicians made money for decades before the internet was popular. People still buy CDs, and often now from the internet. Record companies are greedy fucks.

[jin54363]

if downloading didn't exist, i wouldn't have most of the cool songs, movies, games i found on youtube, utorrent.

if i had to buy it, i would spend LOTS of money, when i can actually download, a fine movie, with a good HD.