What's your honest opinion on Piracy?

Zascar

Few discussions popped up on this in ramdon threads about this, so i thought it might be worth kicking it off in its own thread again.

What are your real honest opinions on Piracy? Are you 100% legal buying all your tunes, and not even one illegally obtained Mp3 on your hard drive? Or are you a complete Pirate where if you can get it for free, you do...? I'm sure most are somewhere in the middle but its interesting to hear everyone viewpoints.

Have the record industry been creaming it for too long, is it their fault they were too slow to react in the first place? How do you consider downloading a Live Set as opposed to an individual track? What about Youtube? If there was a subscription fee you could pay for an all you can eat mp3 buffet, would you do it?

Do you agree with the South Park Episode and think musicians should be in it for the Music - and not just the money - especially when they are very wealthy already.

Is there ever going to be a solution to the problem? How do you think it should best be handled?

seannash

well to be honest im for choice.


if people wanna download stuff illegally theres feck all we can do about it.

personally i support the artist i like but have downloaded tracks illegally in the past.

its not wrong its not right but everyone does it much like speeding

Anima

If I could afford to, I would buy music I like but I'm a poor student with a 20 meg connection and a rapidshare account :pac:

I try and support artists I like and I do buy albums but I download a good few albums every now and then to see what I like when I get bored of the old stuff.

francois

seannash wrote: »

well to be honest im for choice.


if people wanna download stuff illegally theres feck all we can do about it.

personally i support the artist i like but have downloaded tracks illegally in the past.

its not wrong its not right but everyone does it much like speeding

I'll d/load first, if I like i'll buy it, preferably on vinyl if possible, though i'm still scratching my head regarding what you see to be different about DJ mixes-surely commercially available mixes have had royalties paid, so why should mixes uploaded without this be any different?

derra

seannash wrote: »

well to be honest im for choice.


if people wanna download stuff illegally theres feck all we can do about it.

personally i support the artist i like but have downloaded tracks illegally in the past.

its not wrong its not right but everyone does it much like speeding

Greyfox

Piracys cool, nothing wrong with it in my opinion!

It's handier having all your fav songs on your computer as well rather than opening and fideling with CD cases

francois

Greyfox wrote: »

Piracys cool, nothing wrong with it in my opinion!

It's handier having all your fav songs on your computer as well rather than opening and fideling with CD cases

Is fideling something you do with Castro?

Four-Percent

derra wrote: »

You're wrong there - Sean was complaining about the sharing of copyright material in the asylum thread (which is against boards rules), not complaining about piracy in general.Where's the hypocrisy in that?

derra

seannash wrote: »

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personally i support the artist i like but have downloaded tracks illegally in the past.

Four-Percent wrote: »

You're wrong there - Sean was complaining about the sharing of copyright material in the asylum thread (which is against boards rules), not complaining about piracy in general.Where's the hypocrisy in that?

I was referring to that qoute, and it is highly possible he could download in the future.
And probably bit annoyed with him for posting the other thread and the implications it has had, when it was no issue for the last 4 years on the thread
But listen , peoples opinions will differ on the matter and especially for likes of Sean who himself is an artist and is catch 22 situation for him.
He could understand from an artist point of view illegal downloading etc and what it would feel like for people downloading his music without paying but at same time be tempted to illegally download music

Martyr

piracy doesn't hurt real artists, they make their money at the gigs.
it only hurts the companies who try make a profit from it all, they're not artists...con artists maybe.

copeyhagen

what do i think about piracy... well i have been watchin ross kemp try to infiltrate them lately.. crafty sea dogs.

nah seriously though, personally i couldnt be arsed to pay for an mp3, spent 10 years buying vinyl at outrageous prices. the industry owes me hahaha

Executive Steve

100% legal here.

Jay D

I think a lot of people are full of **** to be 100% honest. As if anyone cares if someone is downloading an Elvis CD and not paying for it - "oh now that's extreme I hear them saying" - and as if someone could give a damn if some junglist from Iraq is having his music shared in Chile. No one gives a fúck do they?

If I like something I will buy it, the novelty of owning an original is something I like. I downloaded Chris Liebing - Stigmata and took me ages to find it online and eventually bought it from some guy in NY via Discogs. One example of many I downloaded then bought, The Mix Collection remastered is another that springs to mind.

Four-Percent

derra wrote: »

I was referring to that qoute, and it is highly possible he could download in the future.

Fair enough, my bad then.

Executive Steve

i firmly believe that being able to get everything you want easily is a bad, bad bad bad thing.

derra

[cm]tyranny wrote: »

i firmly believe that being able to get everything you want easily is a bad, bad bad bad thing.

electroma

i dont see problem with it as someone has already said i spent 10 years buying vinyl at ridiculous prices, artists are still making their money just not as much, share and share alike once the quality is great haha