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Rape is OK if she keeps saying no?
All right, 'fess up. Have you ever bought pirated music? Sometimes it's the only way to get what you want.
As a big Beatles collector, I have more than 400 bootleg singles, LPs, and CDs. These consitute less than 1/6 of my Beatles collection. If the material was released legitimately, I'd buy it that way. Just because EMI doesn't want to release anything related to the Beatles that they think won't sell millions of copies doesn't meant that I (and others) don't want to hear it!
I've never bought a pirated album, but I do have one CD that a friend burned on his CD-ROM Writer. He said I'd like the album, I listened to the disc he burned a few times, and it sits unused. Now that your question reminds me of that fact, I will either buy the album (doubtful) or destroy it (likely). If I expect record companies to go the high road, then I better be prepared to do the same. Thanks for the reminder.
Only when what I wanted was not available through "legit" means---live recordings mainly. Although as my audio system has improved over the years, these recordings have become essentially unlistenable to me. For the record companies to be worrying about 24/96 pirating is absurd---the quality will still suck!
The most I've done is listen to somebody elses take he made of his own music. I suppose since I didn't pay for it but he legally made it and then gave it to me I'm an accessory after the fact. Please don't call the law. As to my name below...I'm not the ex president.
The most I've done is listen to somebody else's tape he made of his own music. I suppose since I didn't pay for it but he legally made it and then gave it to me I'm an accessory after the fact. Please don't call the law. As to my name below...I'm not the dead president.
All the music I have on tape is either bought or personal compilations where I have the CD or LP as original source. I have, however listened (the Bill Clinton thing??) to music that appears to be pirated and if I liked it, I would buy a "real" copy for myself.
I bought a black-market 8-track tape years ago while in college (trying to fit a music library (such as it was) into my meager allowance. The product was so dreadful, even by the low standards of the day, that I have not ever bought any pirated music since. Hell, I have a hard enough time getting accurate CDs out of my CD club without throwing money at poorly recorded pirated sounds.
I think the music industry is being greedy. In Canada, the price of blank CDs and blank tapes went up to compensate for the money artists lose from pirating. Why should I have to pay more for a blank tape so someone like Bryan Adams can make more money? I imagine he already makes more than my $25,000 a year. If artists want to protect their music, let them use their money to invest in an encoding scheme. Don't make the general public pay for the mistakes of a small percentage. Now we still have pirating, the music industry makes more money, but the general public pays more for nothing. Just doesn't seem right.