I don't have the money to buy 180gigs of music @ 192 (to clarify the number of albums in there)- nor the stupidity to blindly buy an album, or, most anything. Especially during this regression into single-based music
this is the most ridiculous thing ever. it's just an overly commercial 'issue' out of something which is far from modern,a nd far from definable
drawing a line between sharing and not is a little silly
people have been doing what the participants of this thread (mostly) are calling immoral and illegal (i'm aware that it
is illegal) for forever
sharing books.. showing someone else a piece of art.. recording one cassette to another.. none of these things have ever really called ANY sort of remotely comparable spotlight as this modern music fiasco has.
why now? because most people have never even thought about it before now, and only in this recent time have a, truly, rather small portion of billboard chart dominating popular artists who make music for money started crying about not having as making as many millions of dollars as they did before. it's disgusting to see so many people- music lovers, at that- caught up in..
1 actually
supporting this disgusting pop-celebrity-brat-run campaign which makes a mockery of ethics at all, being that it's just about money.
2 taking it to the point of looking down at your fellow music lovers for this (spare us all the "I judge but i don't speak it so it's okay to be a condescending self-righteous defender of
music as an industry")
3 clinging to the pseudo-ethical perspective to-the-death, despite that things have already changed and will be staying this way and
progressing even further into realms of music NOT as an industry
stubborn and greedy musicians have created stubborn and defensive fans.
also- i purchase good full CDs. i like to get a copy of a thoroughly nice album. I also like to rip it and share it over the internet with anybody who'd like to hear it
this whole itunes led single purchasing availability just revives a time in music where people didn't make albums. a filthy time. modern music industry is destroying all the progress of the 70s in-so-far-as artists making
albums True, it's been in a state of decay for a lot longer than the new millenium. i'd say it's been downhill since MTV came into existence.
supporting the RIAA is supporting single-based music production.
and the death of that will lead to? better music. a good thing, anyone would agree
I think this will all blow over, and as the generation (these battling perspectives can largely be identified as sharing a pattern in age difference, among other substantial pieces of criteria) .. and as the generation that supports intentions of the RIAA dies off, so too will the to-the-death perspectives they have latched on to
I support you completely, OP, as well as anyone else here who has the courage to speak up in favor of this side of things. It's a shame that discussion of anything file-sharing is so frowned upon here.. censored, even. My guess is that that reality of head-fi community/rules is what has this thread so quiet as far as 'this' side of things- The low amount of people even talking on the thread, despite the heat of this issue among music lovers, as well as the sheer mass of people who are pro-downloading.. pretty much voices the support of those who are in favor of 'downloading' Don't be fooled or intimidated by the plethora of pro-RIAA crud. If it weren't for the censorship of share-talk here, this thread would actually read as a game involving
both teams. But, then, it's no surprise that pro-censorship people also support the RIAA
I support this most beautiful revolution, immediately a beautiful thing as it is a correction to that which is
ugly.