RIAA, Downloadin music Options

[stryker76]

Ok i kno that some how eeryone here as either download music illegally or has a CD with music downloaded Illegally.....

So well there is this group of people out there called the RIAA....these smelly ass monkey scrotums are the ones goin out there and gettin all these KIDS..yes KIDS sued or downloading music....we have all heard about that girl that got busted for having like 2000 songs....and she was in the pepsi commercial....well me personally i got 400+ songs downloaded to my computer.....downloading music off the internet is now different then recording it off the radio....i mean come on y are people so anal it is just music....

So what is your opinion....Do you think it should be to download music free off the internet...or not????

[*kryogenix*]

stealings alright when it doesn't hurt anyone. I was simply pointing out that "stealing" an mp3 is nothing like stealing a car...or groceries. It's not really stealing in the first place...it's just duplicating. Usually when something is stolen its in the possetion of another person and not with its rightful owner.

It's sort of like plagarism, in that no actual material is being stolen. But it's not plagarism because nobody claims that the music they've taken and duplicated is there own. The only people that stand to get hurt are the CD companies, but they haven't taken a big hit from music sharing..or else CDs would've dropped in price by now.

well, i think it's more like pirating software, where you are taking the intellectual property of the programmer.

wouldn't cd prices go up to compensate for lost profits?