boybutter wrote:i have a friend who has 40+ gigs of music.... i have full access to his server and can grab them any time i want.....
that's a lot of cash right there....
Well no, not if downloading copyrighted material is unenforceble. 40 gig of whatever is worthless, anyone can get it, for free.
What your saying in essence is that you expect the artists, thier producers, agents etc to spends millions putting out their artistic wares so you can enjoy them free of charge. That's cool there have always been alot of artists that stuck to the credo that pure art is always free. Thing is...
It's always been free. But back in the day it was encumbent on the user to support the art. Now it's all Sony and EMI and Virgin and whoever, you're payin more for the hype than the art. So it's easy to steal, it makes sense to you. You're prolly right, I don't watch music videos so why should the cost of the director and crew be build into every U2 CD I buy? Fuck that I'll just burn a copy from my sister.
Let the 'artists' pander to the rich folk. They can afford to buy. They can also afford not to buy. Steal what you can but support what you like. There's a little band from San Francisco that survived like that, you may have heard of them.
'Trouble ahead, trouble behind. And you know that notion, just crossed my mind'
God made man! But a monkey supplied the glue...