Illegal File-Sharing

[evo4949]

must be opem minded lol

[bmt134]

The 137 people who voted yes are idiots. Why don't we just make theft/robbery legal while we're at it?

[davmag]

downloading a song here and there shouldn't be illegal, but to download an entire movie or cd is definitely criminal.
I'm all for filesharing, it's equivalent to the digital form of recording to a reel-to-reel or cassette tape, but with the crap that they put out now a days, I only d/l maybe one or two songs, hard to find oldies and a slew of remixes that are done underground.
I've never downloaded any movies because I believe that is different than the music. There was a lot of time and effort gone into the production of the movie, but that's only my opinion.
If they brought back the CD singles or had more of a variety of airplay on the radio stations instead of beating us to death with the same song forever, then more people would actually purchase the music. This is why James Blunt's song was banned from a U.K. station because people thought that was all he was about. He's more than that and I feel sorry for him because they don't show more of him or any other artist for that matter.
In the good old days, it was great to see a band perform their songs live (Phish and the Greatful Dead are prime examples), but it seems that more and more artists are in it for the fame and not the craft.
I applaud the girl who performed on MySpace.com because she it appears that she believed in her music and loved to do it. It's not like those buttheads from Metallica who are in it soley for the money.
Plus, the artist makes more money from their live performances anyway so we are not actually taking money from the mouths of the underprivileged.
I'll pay to see Me'Shell NdegeOcello, SoulLive, and now Pearl Jam because they don't care about the filesharing and they don't get their fairshare of airplay, but they continue to perform and they perform because they like it.
Filesharing is great and should be allowed to continue.

[bone187]

hell ya it should be they over price everything these days!

[MarkJM]

downloading a song here and there shouldn't be illegal, but to download an entire movie or cd is definitely criminal

I agree. Downloading a song is only "browsing".

[elvenson]

The 137 people who voted yes are idiots. Why don't we just make theft/robbery legal while we're at it?

the only thing i see as idiotic in this thread so far is that people would pay $20 US + tax to get an album with 8 - 12 songs (15 if you are extremely lucky) considering that maybee 2 -3 songs are good and the artist just made about 30 cents to $1.50 depending on thier contract. The only time i pay for albums is when i know they will be good, i know they are not rich, or im at thier show and know that they will make more on that sale then if it was from a store. keep in mind i dont go to huge concerts at arenas. whenever i buy an album at a show its usually comming straight from the musicians hand... litterally.

as for the movies, i can justify stealing those way more than music.... the big movies are making people extremely rich and the smaller indie releases are sometimes extremely hard to find for sale. pay for them if you like the work put into making them. personally i buy almost all my movies at some point. the ones i download are mostly odd japanese, korean, russian, other international flicks.... or anime shows that i cant find in stores or cant afford to spend $100 on

[Daywalk]

hell ya it should be they over price everything these days!

That´s the Reason why i´m filesharing.

[spenz]

I hate piracy myself but I believe this piracy thing is the bad karma of the music/movie industry for years of overpricing and exploiting customers finances for there own personal satisfaction. Can you imagine a single ordinary DVD movie would cost 2-3k or more per piece and make millions of copies with them and sell them like pancakes. The nature has it's own way of turning things into balance. And this piracy is a good example why we should remind ourselves not to overdo things that might result in taking advantage with our fellow or bad karma will strike back to remind us again. just my 2 cents btw..^_^

[bmt134]

The 137 people who voted yes are idiots. Why don't we just make theft/robbery legal while we're at it?

the only thing i see as idiotic in this thread so far is that people would pay $20 US + tax to get an album with 8 - 12 songs (15 if you are extremely lucky) considering that maybee 2 -3 songs are good and the artist just made about 30 cents to $1.50 depending on thier contract. The only time i pay for albums is when i know they will be good, i know they are not rich, or im at thier show and know that they will make more on that sale then if it was from a store. keep in mind i dont go to huge concerts at arenas. whenever i buy an album at a show its usually comming straight from the musicians hand... litterally.

as for the movies, i can justify stealing those way more than music.... the big movies are making people extremely rich and the smaller indie releases are sometimes extremely hard to find for sale. pay for them if you like the work put into making them. personally i buy almost all my movies at some point. the ones i download are mostly odd japanese, korean, russian, other international flicks.... or anime shows that i cant find in stores or cant afford to spend $100 on

Cry me a river

[sisco9]

All this depends on how you define illegal