Downloading vs. Buying Music

[agallag]

Not too worried here, since the music industry's successful lobbying for levies on blank CDs in Canada basically made copying music for personal use legal up here. They shot themselves in the foot with that one .

[TnT]

@az: That's good to hear, now I'm more tempted to spend money on something I can't afford

In related news:
Reasons to not buy an iPod

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6450_7-5102324-1.html

@agallag: Yeah I read about that, and laughed my ass off for a while. It kinda also parallels how the music industry has been only trying to create big money, short term entertainers. I've heard and read that part of the reason music sales are slumping is because there are no back albums of musician (I use that loosely) to purchase. So people buy the current thing, then when the person goes out of fad that's it. The recording companies are only looking at short term profits and don't care about the long run.

[Taz]

Music piracy has been widespread since the invention of the compact cassette, all that's changed is the methods people use to record it. The record companies have a good idea how much money they will loose each year to piracy and adjust their prices to compensate in the same way insurance companies increase their premiums when they've had a lot of claims.

The music industry has been ripping people off for years and now someones doing it back to them they don't like it

I'd still be buying records if more were produced at least they come better packaged than the average CD so I feel I'm getting something for the exorbitant cost.

[M|x]

you are allowed to download anything in norway, as long as it is for private use. we get new laws in 2004. a bit more like the one they got in eu

[HedsSpaz]

I stopped downloading music a long time ago. It had nothing to do with the RIAA though. I simply got bored of it and there wasn't anything else that I wanted to download. I still occasionally go looking for some obscure songs that I haven't heard in a while or songs that aren't on major labels. But as far as active major downloading I haven't done anything of the sort since I stopped living in a dorm, oh, close to 4 years ago (end of school year 2000).

Now, despite having cable at home for close to a year now and working for a company where I have more bandwidth that I could ever conceivably dream up a way to use, I'm just not interested. I'm almost tempted to download crap just to spite the RIAA, but I'd just delete everything as soon as I finished downloading cause I don't actually want to listen to most of it.

Ian