Yes. File sharing should be legal. In fact, the record companies should embrace it instead of trying to destroy it, because it'll only end up worse. Blanket lawsuits scared people, effectively stopping them...temporarily. They stopped using an inferior file sharing program that downloaded song by song with crappy quality, viruses, and adware. They moved on to something more efficient, something safer. So now the average Joe probably isn't on Kazaa, he's on some other file sharing program with encryption that allows full album and movie downloads with perfect quality and greater speed.
How will they make money? If the artist creates good music, the fans will support him or her. They won't go hungry, that's for sure. It's not like profits will disappear(except maybe for those that intend to excessively profit off the artists such as corrupt labels, etc.)
Without large monetary incentive there's no reason for artists to make music? That's contrary to everything I've ever known about art. Music will continue being made, and the artists won't be sent to the poorhouse.
But then again, what the heck. They can continue running the music industry the way it is and point their fingers at us and cry and sue dead people, and we'll just get better at it. Eventually the industry will have to change. Something will.
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