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Recording Industry dude ripping on Mp3s

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hey i download mp3s and especially cleanly ripped full albums.....and i know im doing wrong. But 95% of them i might not listen . its a hobby of mine, collecting full albums. i think it is wrong for anyone to take a shot at that guy who gave a speech on the piracy at the grammys. i agree the way he said it was like some grave catastrophic tragedy took place or something. what he said though was entirely true. i buy DVDs although the divx thing is there. but with music cds...ive totally stopped buying them because of mp3s available on the internet. i wouldnt buy most of the new music anyways. i probably have a 1000 full albums, if the mp3 option was not there, im pretty sure that i would have purchased atleast 150 CDs in the past two years. it has been 12 months since i bought my last cd. the last CD i bought was euphoria by def leppard....yes i still do buy cds of my favorite bands..none of them had any releases in the past few months. although i am ashamed of myself for downloading the full album of u2 " all that you leave behind", i have every cd of u2, somehow ive been saying to myself that ill download the album for now and buy the album in the future..i havent yet though. one of the main reasons being, i have totally quit using the regular cd playing stereo at my home( a very good one). i either play them on my computer, or in my car's mp3 player. i still do plan to buy the CD.

I read an article a year back, i think it was at ZDnet, it said the war on music piracy on the internet is like the war on drugs. i thought that statement was stupid and over dramatic then. now i feel it is absolutely true, im very sure that it is close to impossible to shutdown the mp3 downloading problem. In case of myself, my friends and others, it might be impossible to stop downloading music off the internet because we are so addicted to it. it will always be there because of the craving for mp3s and satisfaction for those cravings from self styled robinhoods on the internet. downloading good music of the internet is no doubt ripping off an artist who should be given due credit. anyways those are just my thoughts what do u guys think?🙂
 


<< He is sounding stupid.

HAHA.... getting booed...aren't the only people in the audience artists ? >>



The RIAA screws artists more than the people who download mp3's ever will. 😉


Personally, I thought it was pretty damn inappropriate. It seemed totally out of place. He could have brought up the issue without referring to it as a "life and death" situation and perhaps it would have been okay. But ranting about it for 2 minutes just made me change the station.

By the way, I am all for supporting musical artists, but I think the RIAA acting like they are on a holy crusade is little inappropriate. Their little speech just made them seem like hypocrites in my opinion.
 


<< I'm downloading the MP3 of his speech right now 😀 >>



Time to let the rest of us pirate that so we can hear it...
 
Dang, is it just me or do you feel like downloading MP3s now? 😀



<< The RIAA screws artists more than the people who download mp3's ever will. >>

RIAA is suck! :disgust:
 
The issue here is the distribution of their music and not MP3s.

If someone uses an MP3 ripper to copy their CD collection, but doesn't share it with anyone else, I don't see how this can be called copyright infringement. But truth be told, an MP3 is a more viable option for file sharing as it retains near CD-quality without the huge file sizes associated with wavs. Hence, Napster was slapped with the lawsuit and not the creators of MP3.

It all comes down to getting paid. I mean, I would be pretty pissed if I worked my ass off and didn't get paid didly squat. The price of CDs and the quality of songs on a CD is another issue.
 


<< Thats dude deserves toamtoes trown at him for puttign down mp3's


its to big to stop now.🙂 >>




AGREED, to both statement. When they showed the "three" college kids that they used in the example, i only saw two look at the camara. i think the third kinda turned his head and looked down. HAHA.

That guy was pretty full of it. He was saying crap like you gotta buy the albums so the artists can get paid...they get paid enough already. 😀
 
I don't care what he had to say about mp3s, but I hate it when people use their time there to preach about something.

I didn't like it when the Beastie Boys did it and I am for their cause.
 


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<< Money is the root of all evil. Nuff said 🙂 >>

Then give me yours and be free. 🙂 >>



Im a poor college student, dont look at me 🙂
 


<< Actually it is "The love of money is the root of all evil." >>



Really??? My bad 🙂
 
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