Whan can illegal music downloaders possibly say to "justify" their actions?

Question

I was reading an article on the RIAA and i just wanted everyones opinion.

Answer 1

They are rebelling against the capitalist greed of the music industry. After all many artists have gained fans by being rebels so why should they want to make their hero's rich and mainstream.

Answer 2

First of all, I purchase all of my music. But the main argument that the record companies use is awful. That when you don't buy a CD, it's hurting the little guy. My problem is that the CEO of a record label makes Millions while the little guy makes bubkas. I think with the technology available today musicians should make and sell their own music. Just look at the art world. An artist doesn't go to a special place to paint where they provide the canvas and ink etc and then the place sells the art and gets most of the profit! The artist has their own studio, the buy their own paint, their own canvas and sell it either in their own space (so they get 100% of the profit) or in a gallery where the gallery gets a percentage.

The problem is that music recording is a very new thing in relation to music performance (100 years vs. the dawning of human life) so it's taken some time to be able to create a product without the help of a label. Now personal recording is cheaper and easier. My band does it.

The other problem used to be advertising and spreading the word around. Now with forums like Youtube and Myspace, it's easy to develop a fan base!

If the record companies still want to make money, there going to have give more power to the artist, take a cut from their wallet and pay the Janitor a working wage!

Answer 3

I work in the music industry and I can assure you, Major labels will leak out a few tracks on purpose in order to watch it viral across P2P and music torrent download sites. Even though it is not legal, it is believe it or not still a small majority who pirate, only 7% of the Internet world user base.

http://www.audioraider.com is great cause it finds you playlists for free. It is up to you if you want to download or not. It is illegal thought at least in North America.

It is considered by Marketing professionals to be a great way to get people to get to know your music because someone will pirate a track and play it at a small party, someone else will ask about it and buy it on itunes.

In the 80's people copied tapes for each other, no one complained about that... it shoudn't be illegal to share!

Answer 4

This one I have heard.
Say you buy a CD and you get home and it not work. You paid for the rights to hear the music. So, you should be entitled to download what you have paid to hear.

I have found plenty of free music. It may not be top ten artists, but, for free it not bad.
Here one for example;
http://www.mtv.com/music/downloads/?extcmp=SEO_SSP_Y
There many others that have 1,000's of "whole" albums.

Below; JB makes a good point. This how I can get music for free. Through what called "Creative Commons License" many Artists bypass the Record labels and give away their music. People can donate money, if, they wish. I try to give a little as I feel it only fair.

Answer 5

THERE U GO, JB!! Exactly my opinion!! Poor Sony CEOs makin only 10million dolars this year....

Answer 6

Well.. like they say... if they make better cd's i'll buy them... but what would i spend 15 to 20 dollars buying a cd that just have... one or two songs that i like ? ...

Answer 7

They can say it was crap so they didn't feel it was worth paying for.

Answer 8

STOP PUTTING OUT GARBAGE CDS AND THEN MAYBE I WOULD BY THEM

Answer 9

they could say that they didnt know that it was illegel