Downloading, do you care?

[Acuity]

Gripped by the beauty that is the internet, i know VERY FEW people who actually buy CDs. me being one of them.... honestly i have over 50GB's of music on my HTPC and in total i have what, blah, a maximum of 30CD's... friends come to my house and are marvelled that i have a CD "collection"... lol...the 30 CDs i have bought consist of 10cds i bought until year 9 in secondary school when sum1 showed me WinMX, been downhill since, the other 20 are CDs i have downloaded and then bought out of sheer love of the album that i had to support the artist...

do people care that theyre taking the **** out of artists lol... if you made a logo and sum1 found a way to download it, u know ud b angry as a...

[tommylogic]

I would find a different way about distributing my work. I certainly wouldn't strike a deal with an agency that netted me 1% of my distributions AND kept all the rights & owned my creative works.

[Toon]

The money they make from gig tickets I'm sure they'll survive

[Acuity]

are people basically they dont care and are cool with stealing someones product? do people steal other stuff aswell?

(NB:on that note, who here ACTUALLY paid for adobe creative suite?)

[Toon]

I pay for all software as I don't fancy getting the studio shut down

[Acuity]

Originally Posted by Toon

I pay for all software as I don't fancy getting the studio shut down

LOL

[tommylogic]

All of my software is legit !!! Similar reasons... and to make it easier for others to get on board, I am an authorized Adobe Licensing Center and Adobe Reseller.

Are you suggesting that you didn't' pay for yours?

[Acuity]

BitComet - A free C++ BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP Download Client

[drewbie_wan]

Musicians on average retain about 12 cents per each cd sold. thats roughly... 1.6% of the cd. I definately dont feel bad not purchasing cds. I go to alot of concerts. thats where they make their money, depending on the band, anywhere from 100 dollars a night to 5000 a night. plus they retain all profit from merch, minus production costs. and in this day and age, its better for a band to have their stuff pirated anyway, they gain more listeners who are more likely to buy a ticket or a t shirt.

[tommylogic]

like I dsaid.. market it differently. A lot of bands are recognizing this and making changes themselves, departing from the labels. Perl Jam and Bare Naked Ladies have had a LOT of success.