Shii Posted:

You really live in your own world, don’t you.

51% of the music downloaded last year was done illegally. That’s 51% of the revenue they should’ve made. What other industry tolerates theft like that?

That means to just make the same amount of money they would have prior they’d have to DOUBLE the prices on the CDs or mp3s. Not only are you screwing over the company by stealing from them but you’re screwing over the law-abiding people who want to actually support the artists in question.

I’m a Music Business major here in Nashville. I get to see firsthand how crippling piracy is for these labels. As a result of mbumive amounts of money lost to internet music pirates, record labels are having to dip more and more over into the artists’ income, that they get from touring and merchandise sales.

So by being too cheap to pay for your own music, you’re simultaneously screwing over the record label, the artist, and everyone else who buys music legally.

And you think that no money is being lost here? Open your frickin’ eyes dude.

For money to be lost, money would have had to be spent. I don’t illegaly download music but just because their downloading it, doesn’t mean people would be buying it. Most people just wouldent listen to that much music.

Sure, like the guy that downloads 10,000 songs is really going to spend 6 grand on music. The idea that all of that downloading would have been bought is ridiculous. The record industry can’t stop what is happening and needs to adapt.

Or you can enjoy your music twice as much buy buying it legally and listening it thinking to yourself ‘Wow Im so much better than those pirate savages. Thank god for me the moral minority.’.