Raepdog Posted:

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.’.

It’s a valid point, but at least SOME of that music would be legally bought. They might not spend $6,000 on it, but I’m sure they’d have at least 1,000 songs or so.

It’s not an issue of being “holier than the savages,” it’s an issue of paying people who deserve it. If some artist paints a new painting, if someone just walked in and took it cuz they wanted it, what kind of argument would “I’m too cheap to pay for it” be?

What kind of argument would “I just want to try it out and see if I like it” be?

In the real world, theft of property isn’t tolerated. Why is it tolerated online? Because it’s easier? Because everyone does it?

Here’s a shocker: not everything “everyone does” is right.