Guest Neubeatz Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 B*ST*RDShttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4318765.stmedit;link removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cowboy Dan Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 Yeh, damn them for catching out people who are breaking the law, bastards!!Damn them to hell! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HummerOfIntenseEvil Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 If people were left to download songs for free as much as they wanted, it's not the majors who would suffer, it's the independant labels. And we don't want that, do we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 no the majors would suffer, this can only be a good thing for bands and these sites had it coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HummerOfIntenseEvil Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 no the majors would suffer' date=' this can only be a good thing for bands and these sites had it coming[/quote']They'd suffer, but then they'd just buy up the independents, who would be on their knees crying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 They'd suffer' date=' but then they'd just buy up the independents, who would be on their knees crying.[/quote']i dunno about that, all i think is, the sooner illegal file sharing ends the better, use itunes if you'd preffer to download but this will benifit the music industry in general Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stuartmaxwell Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 i download and i buy,ill say the same thing for this as i say for council tax and tv licencestuff shite if ye get caught, if ye dont, whaey! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HummerOfIntenseEvil Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 i dunno about that' date=' all i think is, the sooner illegal file sharing ends the better, use itunes if you'd preffer to download but this will benifit the music industry in general[/quote']There is no need to download anyway since you can transfer music from CDs onto MP3 players quite easily. The only time I've downloaded music is live stuff and rareties which aren't commercially available, and if I got caught doing that I would just say to the band "well fucking release them on CD and I'll buy them. Ye cunts."All bands should have songs that can't be bought on their sites. Then there's no excuse.iTunes: I'll never use that until they stop raping the British market. 79p a song? Get cunted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydoll Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 79p a song? Get cunted!And by then the government has removed your happy hour so you can't afford to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stuartmaxwell Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 dont remind me mr psydolljust dontcunts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 There is no need to download anyway QUOTE]Yes there is, its free.Surely the filesharing companies should be fined, not people like students Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 bah at the end of the day they are just going to make an example of these people there is no way they are going to charge every what 100 million downloaders for stealing music.All this is, is the media trying to scare the public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tav Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 If I didnt download I wouldn't have half the CDs I have now. Its how I find out about bands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 If I didnt download I wouldn't have half the CDs I have now. Its how I find out about bands.same here. although with that said, i found out about quite a few bands via the mildly successful....ah who am i kidding...mixtape trade that went on aaaaaaaaaaages ago and died two weeks later.so c'mon folks, make tapes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tav Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 I think that you have to buy CDs...if there's no money going into the music industry from CD sales then how is it going to be able to grow and expand or indeed get even better... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Me and Parvati Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 1973-4 the price of oil rocketed; the price of LPs was bumped up by ~ 30%....1985 the price of oil plummeted. Strangely, records didn't drop in price. At all.1979 - "Home taping is killing music!" - the major labels wanted to slap a levy on blank cassettes because (shock! horror!) people were taping their mates' LPs instead of buying their own - the industry was on the verge of collapse, artists would soon starve to death etc..2004 - "File sharing is killing music" blah blah blah.2004 - A label (Decca?) asks for help to find a pile of artists due back royalties. "We feel it is our moral duty to pay these people what they're due" One of the artists is David Bowie. How hard are they looking?Major record labels are a business. They make money. Fuck art, they make money. You share files; that's money they think they should have. They are rich, you are poor, they have lawyers: pay up, scum. If anyone on these boards believes that any major label bases it's decision to sign an artist on their belief in the intrinsic quality of that artists' work rather than the immediate commercial possibilities, then they need to gie themsels a bliddy good shak.Sorry, got a bit grumpy there, and I know many labels are better than that, just let me get that off my kite.J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tav Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 Yes because the major labels are out there to get us all, kill your children and rape your wives whilst trying to suck up the worlds money without paying for the recording release and distro for millions of artists...yeah... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 well if the majors lose a few million how the hell are they gonna keep their already too rich shareholders happy???thing is these days they can track the fiends who are breaking the law and downloading music - its been going since the arrival of the cassette in the late 60's!i download tracks that are hard to get hold of and also to listen to new bands, dont think there's anything wrong with that - if i think a band is good enough then i'll buy the CD anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tav Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 But if you loose 40% of your sales thats not just a few million... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 fair point i was just plucking a figure at random! i'm sure you got me point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neubeatz Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 Well I have put up Chumbawumba, Pass It Along, on my purevolume site/page, feel free to download it, its fully legal, http://www.purevolume.com/datathieves/music You wont get sued by the BPI, and it will help to explain, why I posted the thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HummerOfIntenseEvil Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 i download tracks that are hard to get hold of and also to listen to new bands' date=' dont think there's anything wrong with that - if i think a band is good enough then i'll buy the CD anyway.[/quote']That's exactly what I used to do until my PC started fucking up every time I used soulseek. But there are some out there who don't seem to see anything wrong with nicking music which is commercially available.We all know the majors are the spawn of satan etc etc, but I sincerely doubt that the folk who download tons of stuff actually give a toss whether or not the label they are ripping off is Sony or We Have No Money Records.The fact is bands should put stuff on their own websites; live gigs, past b-sides etc. I would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 yeah i think you have a point, the main problem it seems is that some people just download music and never buy it, i'm totally against this personally.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 there are some out there who don't seem to see anything wrong with nicking music which is commercially available.The fact is bands should put stuff on their own websites; live gigs' date=' past b-sides etc. I would.[/quote']I dont' see a problem with downloading music or software, the more people that do it the better. I believe in COPYRIGHT, in the sense that an artist or programmer can claim sole rights to the stuff they have produced. However, this is not the same as what the MPAA and RIAA would have you believe is copyright, what they are concerned with is royalities. They are nothing more than third-party pimps, exploiting both the artist and the consumer. I say download whatever you want, you would have to be a moron to spend 10 quid on a CD when you can download the same material off the internet for free. Don't whine crap like "oh but when you buy a CD or a vinyl you get the cover art and a sleeve!" What the fuck? Do you buy a marsbar because you like to keep the wrapper? Don't be fooled by these value-adding tricks the record companies use. We have power over the music industry, as consumers, in a way which is forever lost in other sectors. If we all continue to download music and films and software, they will be forced to change the way they operate. So what if they prosecute a handful of people, so what if they try to publicise those cases in an attempt to intimidate us? Technology has made their business model obselete, don't give in to the propoganda. To those of you who say shit like "i always buy the cd anway" or "i buy the cd because piracy damages the artists" - YOU ARE WRONG. Piracy damages the middle men, the fuckers who are ripping us all off, artists and consumers alike, and that's why they hate it. Therefore, PIRACY IS GOOD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neubeatz Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 btw, gridlock rulz!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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