Music Downloads
What’s your opinion on this “controversy”?
Obviously, you support file-sharing, because you’re the consumer. The big bad corporations, on the other hand, are freaking about about downloads which cost them nothing. They fib about losing millions each year due to people sharing mp3s, but the act of downloading music has no cost for them. Really, isn’t it our right to enjoy music? Isn’t that in itself a compliment to the artist? And as many have pointed out, downloading a song or two works to the effect of a free demo. It makes you want to buy the CD.
And you know, in and of itself, finding mp3s to download is like a job in and of itself. You have to initially locate the song, which requires one to sift through an army of outdated and broken webpages littered with porn (although I suppose that last bit is a matter of preference…) . By the time you find a download link, you realize that either by straight broweser download, bittorrent file, or p2p service, the download takes forever and is never guaranteed to complete. And who knows – it could be a virus, or the wrong song. Then you have to update the file’s details so your mp3 player can categorize it correctly….
So is it any better to work all day to afford a genuine copy?
I dunno.
And you know what?
I’ve only bought one CD in my life.
HOW YOU LIKE COOK YOUR STEAK?!?
That’s not even the worst of it. These companies, regardless of if they want to acknowledge it, are MAKING MONEY because people are downloading their music! When people download music, rarely do they download a whole album, but often will people download one or two tracks from an artist and buy their albums or singles. I did with Celldweller, and I would probably never have found that band otherwise.