(November 9, 2014 at 2:04 pm)FifthElement Wrote: To answer original OP question: Why so much hate?
Personally, I do not hate people who do this, but I do not approve it either.
Just don't try to give me a "free" copy of what you downloaded (like that's gonna make you feel better or it's gonna "hook" me up or whatever), if you do, then we are going to have a problem ...
CREATIVE people who are trying to make living out of it are the ones who most likely hate it though, they might have kids too who need food at the table, putting oneself in their position might help to correct this childish behavior
What I HATE is these "business" type cocksuckers who actually make copies and then sell them under table for few bucks a pop, Mexican and Korean food stores and flea markets, anyone ?
Personally, from my perspective as a person who's in a rock band, at this stage I'd love it if lots of people did pirate our music. I'd be very proud that so many people wanted it.
Filesharing and youtube broadcasting and all these other things which have a negative effect on the profits of bands who are already wealthy, have a positive effect on working class creative peoples work by show casing what they have to the world for free.
People used to have to either do gigs over and over and over and over.
Or sell their CDs on the street, which relatively no one will by because it would involve spending money on someone's music you never heard before.
I can't think of anything I have pirated which was created by anyone who doesn't, or didn't, have collections of sports cars and mansions, so it's difficult for me to feel guilty from that perspective too.
But yeh it annoys me extremely when people make money off other people's work like you mentioned, and it would annoy me also if I wrote a book or something and didn't get credit for it.
Credit, compliments and the fact I like the music I make, are the ONLY reason I do what I do right now.
There's situations where I would be annoyed if our music was used without our permission though so I'm not totally one sided with my opinion
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