File sharing at its finest. Not that I would know.
In the war against music file swapping, there have been countless casualties. Napster and Grokster are a few that come to mind. But, even with the industries clamp down on file sharing, new technologies have emerged to make this fight, against such financial loss, impossible to win. One such free technology, BitTorrent, created by Bram Cohen, looks to be the proverbial nail in the coffin that is physical media.…
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26 - Broke
I'm a small, broke, independent recording artist, and I've had my most recent album illegally downloaded in its entirety roughly ten times more often than it's been purchased.
I'm probably going to have to stop financing my own albums due to outright theft of my copyrighted material. This means I won't be able to afford to compete in the same musical markets with the big boys. I'm thousands of dollars in debt.
What you people are doing here is highly immoral and illegal and you're harming the small, independent musician/composer far more than you're hurting the RIAA giants. You're in the process of destroying the careers of honest, hardworking, well-meaning people who are in hock up to their eyeballs because they believe in themselves.
When I was a kid, do you know what we did when we couldn't afford the purchase price of an album?
We did without the album. It was the right thing to do.
This generation is blind to the concept of "right and wrong"...hell, you're blind to the concept of "legal and illegal" as it pertains to societal decay.
Do you actually believe that the fact of file-sharing is a justification for theft?
27 - Brian aka Guppusmaximus
"What you people are doing here is highly immoral and illegal..."
No, what we were doing here was discussing wether or not Bittorrent really hurts the music industry.
28 - Tom Johnson
Broke, let me tell you something about filesharing. There have been countless times that I have downloaded something to check out and then bought not only that album but the other albums from that artist after hearing what I downloaded. Without downloading, I probably would not have gotten around to checking out half of the music I own. If I enjoy something, I BUY it. You also neglect to take into consideration the number of people that download something and then see that you're coming through their town and decide to buy a ticket and maybe some merchandise at the show. You make more off of tickets and merch than CDs, don't you? Please don't pretend that we all don't know that CDs are the lowest point of the profit chain for the artist.
What's really hurting bands today is the attitude displayed by artists like "Broke." It makes people bitter and resent the artists rather than feel any sympathy for them. That said, I can't think of how many bands I've seen say that they're just glad to have their music out there and that it gets people to come see them. You're fooling yourself if you think you would have sold 10 times what you already have if not for filesharing. People try things out via filesharing because they can, not because they're cheap. If it hadn't been for filesharing, none of those people would have known your music at all. Think about that. Remember, as Robert Fripp and others have said, if you're in the music business to make money, you're setting yourself up for a major disappointment.
29 - ibeew
Music is not free,even if we are p2p or bit torrent.My P.C. cost me $2500.00 nz cheap by todays standard,I also use broadband 45.00 mnthly and not counting the cost of elect and updating software bla bla bla.So dont tell me I'm getting a free ride.If the music industry is serious about their bleeding profits the solution is easy.The cost is well, I would have to put a label on that one.
30 - bliffle
Broaden your horizons, listen to something different. Try googling "public domain torrent" and go from there to find good stuff that is free and no one objects to your download.
Think for yourself and stop letting the Industry Execs in Hollywood dictate your taste.