(April 27, 2014 at 2:04 pm)Kitanetos Wrote:(April 27, 2014 at 1:48 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It never ceases to astonish me how often people justify theft because it happens to be easy, or 'everybody does it'.
Theft is theft.
Boru
My sentiments are that those who can afford to pay for the music/movies will do so.
Those of us who cannot afford to pay for it, are not hurting the multi-billion dollar entertainment business one iota.
Besides, when I do have money, at least it is still circulating into the economy toward something, even if it is not toward music/movies.
To reiterate Boru's point, does that mean if I need a car but cannot pay for it I should just steal one off of GM's lot because they're doing fine? He's right theft is theft, you can try and justify it any which way you want but you are still stealing. And besides not to sound like a commercial because I'm pretty sure I've talked about this company on the forum before, but I use Rhapsody and I don't know what kind of deal with the devil they made but I pay $10 a month for unlimited music. I technically don't own the music, its not downloaded on my hard drive but with the same money I would only be able to buy 8-10 songs off iTunes so its worth it to me.
Also, do you make sure you discriminate between which record companies you steal from? Because the money that record companies make doesn't go to a big pot of money called "The Entertainment Industry". There are small independent record companies that need the money to continue to support good, non-mainstream music. The way it works (especially with independent labels) is that you pay for the music. A small portion of that goes to the artist. But a good chunk of the left over money goes to making lots of albums (which the artist by them self couldn't afford), promoting the artist's live shows through television, radio, and newspaper ads (which again the artist can't afford), buying radio time for the artist's songs (artist can't afford), renting larger venues (artist can't afford), etc. Basically the record company pays a lot out of its pocket, especially when the band doesn't have a lot of exposure, to give them that exposure to make them possibly successful. Its basically an investment in that artist's sound, that they will in turn make profits for the record company to again pick another unknown artist and try to give them a fan base. That's why bands always wanted to be signed to a label, it means more exposure for them.
