Illegal File-Sharing

[sscape]

No.

[punki_rach]

I voted no too

[GoldStoNe]

I agree that filesharing per se is legal. It's like sharing food for instance. It's the material that you share that makes it illegal. If the copyright owner allows the distribution of his work, then it's legal. If not, it's illegal.

[durex]

as long as it's not for profit

[Night0wl]

Within limits, yes

For profit, NO

I have a feeling the average musician would make more money, and it would stop the ridiculous remasters, re-releases, compilation, best of bleh etc. It would also make music on the radio/TV worth listening to again, since noone would be paying anyone to play the same song 30 times a day.

[deepee]

laws are made to be broken, so piracy will be as good only when its illegal. lol

[Night0wl]

I was actually talking about more as an art instead of a business, the business part of it prevents the good stuff from ever being released. Most of the time when the big labels are involved, the artist doesn't get to make the music he/she really wants to, but rather what the record companies demand, so they can cash in as much as possible.

By utilizing the Internet, the artist could produce and promote the music cheap, and then tour, sell merchandise, sell and ship CDs or Vynil (without printing 1 million copies) at a reasonable price to people that want that option, get ad revenue through the site where the music is distributed.

It wouldn't be the multi million dollar business it is today, but should it be... really?

[zemitras]

as long as it's not for profit

x2

[hollowed_one]

it wont because of the money thing thats like makin it ok to just take food from mcdonalds you kno....no 1 would make money

[gan.nez]

it should be legalized as long as u don't make any profit and as long as u use it for your own and not start selling your dvd's on ebay; lol;