downloading music, have you stopped?


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99% of the music i listen too is club/trance/dance mostly never released in this country unless i import it on vinyl or sommet so theres no chance im gonna stop downloading tunes

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?20,000 a song is the settlement they are expecting!

1 billion songs copied throught out the world

A total of ?20trillion in fines is expected througout the world.... some how that seems more than the music industry makes in 5 years!

Punishment to fit the crime - I believe it doesn't!!

I think the RIAA need to get their head out of their ass and work on new ways of producing decent, affordable albums

Di*cks

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considering in canada, they have a levy on all recordable media that in turn, goes to artists. if i'm buying blank cds, i'm going to download and burn music since i'm paying them indirectly. i believe its legal here anyway because of this, is it not?

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<<insert standard reply>>

I exercise my right to refuse to answer under the privilges afforded me by the 5th Amendment of the United States Constitution ninja_hide.gif

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considering in canada, they have a levy on all recordable media that in turn, goes to artists. if i'm buying blank cds, i'm going to download and burn music since i'm paying them indirectly. i believe its legal here anyway because of this, is it not?

Is that real? How would it go back to specific artists though? Or is split between labels? Seems like something that should be applied here in the states if anything.

As for an answer to the question...I just pretty much dl live club mixes that wouldn't otherwise be available in music stores. Not really sure of the legality behind those rips :)

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Used to D/L a lot, but I've seriously cut back. Not because the RIAA is pandering to mind-numbing stupidity, but simply because the latest stuff doesn't really catch my interest. I've decided to look elsewhere as a result of what I have found on the KaZaA network: MP3.com's free showcase is a good thing. Artists like Ryan Farish and Red Delicious are people I would have never discovered without KaZaA LiTE, and I'm glad it's legal to download free versions of their music off MP3.com.

Beyond that...eh... I'm not worried.

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Till the media sorts itself out and starts catering for people other than teenage girls I will use the internet to listen to new music.

I use it as a try before you buy thing, if more of you went out and bought the music you listen to once in a while then maybe it never would have got as bad as it is.

**Prepares to be hated**

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I never really used P2P networks. Except for the odd 1 offer MP3. I use usenet 99.9% of the time as if it isnt already there someone will port it if you request it, you just have to wait a few hours. Also your get the whole album in a constant quality on usenet :)

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I dont have any downlaoding programs on my computer....but I have downloaded in the past :whistle: I just wish it wasnt such a big deal to hear some songs before wasting money on a CD that isnt worth it in the long run.

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I've downloaded music in the past, and I will continue doing it. I still buy CDs, but downloading the songs is better because it costs me nothing.

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Is that real? How would it go back to specific artists though? Or is split between labels? Seems like something that should be applied here in the states if anything.

I *believe* there continues to be a fee added to blank media (tapes, CD-Rs, etc.) in the U.S. as well for quite some time now to help offset assumed periodic copying for personal purposes, etc. Don't know how the fees are divided exactly, nor exactly how much is tacked on to the price of blank stuff. This was a U.S. thing going back at least a decade, I believe, when even taping CD's for personal use or to make mix tapes was being confronted, yet "fair use" in copyright law was readily accepted as 100% legal....

Heck, the record companies were even trying desperately to insist people couldn't resell used CD's, especially via stores that would buy them and resell them in large quantities (like Wherehouse at the time).

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