It's a little much for 24 songs, but illegal downloading really needs to stop... Artists will start disappearing, if there's no money to be found anywhere.

Fozzer wrote on Jun 20^th, 2009 at 5:21am:



That's because people like that think it will only happen to other people. I wont lie, I did it, but when Napster was closed down I stopped. Apart from which it is a great way to get a virus, Trojan or any other of the milliard of hard drive invaders

Matt

Anxyous wrote on Jun 20^th, 2009 at 5:11am:


Maybe they could start working for their money and perform at concerts instead of lip syncing for 30 minutes. Maybe this way only the great bands/singers will survive and the world will be saved from trash as Britney, Christina, Lady Gaga and all those so called DJ's who press two buttons on a laptop to make millions.

Carlo

ozzy72 wrote on Jun 20^th, 2009 at 8:24am:


My farts sound better than Bono and U2.... you think I can earn something with it?

Carlo (the pressure of performance...)

This is why things like iTunes is succeeding whilst the industry fails as you only download the songs you want, not the rest of the trash that seems to be used to fill an album.
I think the industry is scared as it doesn't "get" the potential and power of the new medium of digital distribution...

The only reason to buy an album with anything over 10 songs would be if it were a concept album, in which every song is important to the overall theme of the record.

Look at some of the Beatles later stuff.  Yellow Submarine, for instance.  It's kinda impossible to take a couple of songs off the album, throw them into your iTunes folder and expect to get the message of the record.  The songs need to be together.  I can't recall any album from the past fifteen years that had that.  At least, any mainstream artists.

Good riddance to things like Britney Spears and Shaquira (or whatever)!  Maybe they will lose enough money to quit . . .

Then again . . .

"Why did I only make 10 million dollars last month instead of 15 million?!"

"Because some people downloaded your music illegally, Britney."

"We're gonna sue those F#@%ers!"

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That's an odd way of looking at it. The same excuse used by some toe-rag to justify breaking into your house or stealing your car.

There's a strange set of double-standards at work here. Members of this forum get very upset about software piracy & somebody stealing their work, even if it's freeware. Posting payware addons for download is treated as a heinous crime. Yet some of these very same people can see nothing wrong with stealing copyrighted material from a performing artist or record company, just because they happen to be successful.