I know it's illegal and I've heard that you hurt the music company when you download music illegally. How though? I mean....I haven't heard of an expalnantion.......and how does it hurt the musician..do they lose money or what?
2007-02-08 09:54:58 · 16 answers · asked by 09'Ready 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
When you download the songs illegally, you're probably not going to buy the CD. If you don't buy the CD, the music company nor the artist receives money for it.
I download songs illegally, but I have a rule: when I download three songs from one particular CD, I buy the CD --and it ends up in a big box, never to be looked at again. MP3's are much more convenient.
"Buy your songs at iTunes", you say? I want to be able to transfer the MP3 to whatever device I want. I understand that with iTunes, you can't.
2007-02-08 10:01:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The musician and the music company lose money because you are stealing the music instead of paying for it.
2007-02-08 09:57:49 · answer #2 · answered by mystery_me 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think that they are too worried about the whole thing myself , even if i do dl music if i like it i will still go and buy the CD , because i like to have the real thing and the artwork and notes , what i really hate is when you buy the CD and there are no or only a couple good songs on it and you just forked out 15 -20 buck's for it , now that's a rip off !!!
2007-02-08 10:08:18 · answer #3 · answered by houseofcarpet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Talk about the economy. About gas prices and driving to the record store. You can also talk about how James Hetfield called Lars a "Whiny Little B****" about the whole Napster thing. You can mention people like Bowie who put their music on their sites for free downloads.
2016-05-23 22:40:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you download it for free, you won't be paying $11.99 for the CD and everyone involved misses out on their cut. Including the record store, the distributor of the Cd's, the record company, the artist and his manager.
2007-02-08 10:00:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all about royalties.
Supose you wrote a book and had it published. After all is said and done, you make maybe 25 cents per copy sold. If one of every ten poeple made a copy of your book and gave it to a friend, you wouldn't be paid that 25 cents for the copied book. The publisher wouldn't make their share on the printing either.
Now multiply that by thousands and tens- or hundreds- of thousands... get the picture?
2007-02-08 10:00:12 · answer #6 · answered by BigRez 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For every CD that gets sold, the artist gets their cut, the music company get their cut and the outlet get theirs, its called royalties. Its like with anything you buy, if you stopped buying a product whoever is manufacturing that product would eventually go broke if we all stopped buying that product.
2007-02-08 10:00:56 · answer #7 · answered by rightio 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you download music you dont buy it at the store and it loses record sales and money for the company and the artist
2007-02-08 09:59:46 · answer #8 · answered by mae 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummm obviously if you d/l the cd without paying for it it's like stealing personally im all like scew it i really dont care if i like em that much i'll go out and buy the cd as a back up for my mp3's otherwise im not paying 20 bucks for 2 songs of a 21 song cd ya know?!
2007-02-08 09:58:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think about it. If you don't buy music how would the musician get paid?
2007-02-08 09:57:37 · answer #10 · answered by smorapcs 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋