Should downloading music off the internet for free be legalized?

Wanted to see what you duders think. To me, it's stupid that it's illegal. I'd be happy just knowing that people were listening to my music instead of having a cow if I learned that somebody wasn't paying for it.

No.

"No."

Care to explain why instead of making a useless one word post?

Not at all. What's next after free music is legalized? Stealing games being legalized? Where does it end?

When people post stuff like this it makes me wonder how old they are.

"Care to explain why instead of making a useless one word post?"

"No."

no.

Artists should be paid for their work. However I will agree in that the industry itself needs to change and areas such as 'fair use' need to be clearly addressed. An interesting model that some artists have taken is pay what you think its worth. They offer up which is basically a free download of DRM-free content, and have a means for you to pay them based off what their music was worth.

Ultimately, it should be up to the content creator what is done with their stuff, and hopefully the music industry as it is now will collapse. Maybe then a new music revolution can begin.

I don't think it should be free, but record companies need to chill out about sites like YouTube and offer a better solution to piracy. Piracy a lot of times isn't a lost sale - Those people were never going to buy your songs anyway, regardless of what they say.

"iAmJohn said:

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No. Thats an incredibly retarded thing to think

To listen to it, it should be free, to own it, you should pay.

Free is not the best goal to be achieved. Specialized distribution is what that industry needs.

nO

it's legal at my country, although there is a tax wich helps those groups of people who suffer from piracy.

Umm, no. Why the hell should it be legal? Then downloading games should also be legalized.

"it's legal at my country, although there is a tax wich helps those groups of people who suffer from piracy."

"Wanted to see what you duders think. To me, it's stupid that it's illegal. I'd be happy just knowing that people were listening to my music instead of having a cow if I learned that somebody wasn't paying for it."

I don't think it should be legalized, however I do think that artists should embrace the tendency of users to want to pay less (or nothing) for music and ditch their record companies in favor of more adaptive and updated marketing techniques. Some bands that are my favorite now are bands that I could only find on BitTorrent a few years ago, and they got very popular from that and their image grew from there. Adaptive pricing techniques and lower pricing has allowed artists to make more money individually (by keeping much more of the profit) while giving the users a fairer deal as well. Plus, they make more from shows than they do on CDs.

anything can be downloaded legally here, unless you sell it or download huge amounts. It is legal because in theory you are sharing something with the peson who gave it to you through the internet, and that is legal anywhere.

The way I see it, you should be paying for it if the money is going to the person that created it. Therefore, all music by Bach should be public domain, for download whenever.

How would you feel if you spent that much time on something just to have it stolen and you get absolutely no profit out of it.

Still free in Canada bro, as long as you don't try and make a profit off of it.

Why don't we just legalize game piracy then too? And movie piracy? Idiot.

You wouldn't have much music if people weren't getting paid for it, how would you expect them to make a living? The fact is the music is a product you can purchase, if you download it you are doing the same thing as stealing the CD from a store. If you don't want to pay don't buy it, but don't cheat someone out of their paycheck.

At the request of the OP I am locking this down.

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