Now i used to buy it when I had the full resources to get it for free in seconds because i beleived it was wrong to do na dif your christian stealing is a sin and it violates the ten commandments. However now i have come to the realization that you can not put a price on a sound and that once that aound was created it was then free for anyone to posses. If you steal a CD then that is wrong because you are stealing a product that costed money to make, but going onto the internet and downloading noise is not stealing. Music was once always purchased because in order to get it to people you needed to manufacture resources to get it to the people, which costs miney but now music is free and is morally right to obtain for free by downloading from the web. Who agrees with me.
I DONT MEAN THOSE WHO CONSIDER IT STEALING BUT JUST DONT CARE EITHER WAY. I MEAN THOSE WHO BELEIVE IT IS MORALLY RIGHT.
2007-08-30 16:06:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
When copyright was created, it was to prevent book publishers from taking an author's work, publishing it, and making profits from the sales of that work without giving a cent back to the author. However, when financial gain isn't involved, as in peer-to-peer file sharing, I feel that copyright is absurd, as no one is truly gaining from the distribution, because ideas, which copyright "protects", are naturally free, just as speech is naturally free--unless the creator of the ideas chooses to keep them secret and outside of public knowledge and distribution.
2007-08-30 16:31:18 · update #1
i undesratnd it takes time and money to make podcasts and programs like that but programs such as limewire and frostwire are programs that were made legally and the creators who made it offered it for free and knew peole were using it for free, the same with the people who uploaded the music. Bands make great money at concerts and from concerts they can make more than enough money to live, and enough to be rich.
2007-08-30 16:39:53 · update #2
I think if they don't want people downloading they shouldn't make it so easy. I don't do it because I don't want to get in any trouble but I hear limewire makes it very simple.
Yea I guess you can't steel sounds anyway
2007-08-30 16:25:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Do you have a job?
Do you want to get paid?
Do you want to get raises in the future?
I can understand that people think it "is free" because it is on the internet.
I am looking at making a podcast. It is going to take several hours for me to do it. I want to get paid for that time. I have to purchase hardware and software to be able to make it. But it is going to be out there for free.
Fortunately for me, I have a way of getting paid for what I do. But if we start considering that just because you can "hear" something it is free, then we are taking money away from others.
If you go to a bar, you generally pay a cover, which in turn pays the band. If you stand outside, you don't get to hear the music well or at all. But it is free. Now, you could somehow have someone distract the person at the door, and get in for free. Is that morally right? The band was playing anyway, and your cover isn't worth that much.
Now what if everyone said "hey, someone else didn't pay, I shouldn't have to pay" and so no one paid the cover.
The band wouldn't get paid.
The problem with thinking that music is free (or software is free) is that you are not being realistic in the costs, or the value of what you are getting.
If you could listen to me or your favorite pop star sing a song, I would bet you would not choose me. That is because I can't sing. So what you are paying for when you pay for the song is for the value of that artist to create it. You don't pay everytime you listen, just to have the right to have it so you can listen over and over and over and over etc.
2007-08-30 16:24:59 · answer #2 · answered by mj69catz 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Downloading music for free is stealing, no question about it. That music is the property of the artist(s) that create it and companies that promote and sell it. You certainly can put a price on "sound" and to suggest otherwise is an attempt at fooling yourself that downloading music for free is not illegal. I don't agree. It is theft.
2007-08-30 16:18:38 · answer #3 · answered by Mr G 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No I don't agree. Artist who create music with the intent of selling it in the market are entitled to compensation for their effort. If you didn't believe their music was worth listening to, don't listen to it, and more importantly, don't buy it.
If you worked at Sears and a bunch of people shoflifted, do you believe that Sears would be entitled to cut YOUR pay by your "fair share" of the value of the merchandise that was stolen. Of course not.
If you want to download music, download it from the garage band down the street who creates sucky music. If you want to listen to good music from artistic professionals, pay for the privlege.
When you grow up, enter the workforce and expect to be fairly compensation for your efforts, you'll appreciate what I'm saying.
2007-08-30 16:20:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It does cost money to make music. Instruments, training, sound equipment, studio time, editing, paying employees, storing the files, digitizing them, making them into the cohesive thing that you hear in the final product. That doesn't come for free. It cost money to make that. Someone paid someone else to make it.
Do you honestly think that these things are made in a vacuum? That it really doesn't cost money to record it?
2007-08-30 16:22:42 · answer #5 · answered by Dragonchilde 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is hijacking cable signals from your neighbor stealing?
its just a picture.
Is photocopying a novel stealing?
its just words.
downloading music for free is absolutely stealing and is no different than pocketing a disc at Best Buy. If it was your career, and your only source of income, to make music would you give it out for free?
2007-08-30 16:29:38 · answer #6 · answered by George Money 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. The people who wrote the music and lyrics are entitled to their royalties and they can't collect them if you are getting the music for free. That's why they had the songs published in the first place.
2007-08-30 16:16:38 · answer #7 · answered by jim h 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not me. Making music is just like any other business or merchandise. It's something someone is selling, just like a car, a pair of socks, food, a basketball game. If you want it, you have to pay for it. If you don't pay for it, you are stealing.
2007-08-30 16:16:01 · answer #8 · answered by Darby 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Your logic is really twisted (you have a future as a lawyer/politician).
2007-08-30 16:36:27 · answer #9 · answered by Caninelegion 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋