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Now I know, downloading is illegal. But asking 15 to 25 euros for a cd, that's a lot in my opinion. I make 5.50 euro an hour, I like over 200 bands. I need to work two till five hours for something I can listen 30 to 50 minutes to. Worth it? Not really.
They kind of do, though.Imagine you're a baker. You are tasked to make a new cake - in fact, the best cake in the world. So, you slave away, night and day, for many months, perfecting your cake recipe. You go through a lot of ingredients getting it right, and since they're only the best, this costs you a lot o money, not to mention the cost of those long hours working hard. Finally, you get it right. It's fantastic. It's the most fabulous cake in the world. You begin baking cakes following the recipe. Finally, your cakes are ready to be put in cake shops.At this point, someone (who in my imagination looks like a Spy from Team Fortress 2) comes into your bakery, buys a cake, then steals your recipe, and begins producing his own copies of the cake and handing them out to everyone*. Suddenly everyone has your cakes, and you have made virtually no money for all that hard work. A little tear runs down your cheek.*Assume that in this analogy the Spy has some way of mass-producing cakes for zero cost to himself. It could happen.Depending on the size of the band, the amount of money they stand to lose varies, but there is always some impact.It's like littering. There is the mentality of "ehh, if I drop this sweet wrapper on the floor, it's not going to hurt the environment too much". And that's true. The problem is that everyone has that same mentality, and the problem stacks up until it's a real issue.Ehh. I can't decide which viewpoint I'm coming from.
And Roland.Your friend shared his music with you so you could get your own. That's the same thing as piracy.Someone upload the music. You put it on your computer(download it). But you don't sell it. You just use it for yourself.
They kind of do, though.Imagine you're a baker. You are tasked to make a new cake - in fact, the best cake in the world. So, you slave away, night and day, for many months, perfecting your cake recipe. You go through a lot of ingredients getting it right, and since they're only the best, this costs you a lot of money, not to mention the cost of those long hours working hard. Finally, you get it right. It's fantastic. It's the most fabulous cake in the world. You begin baking cakes following the recipe. Finally, your cakes are ready to be put in cake shops.At this point, someone (who in my imagination looks like a Spy from Team Fortress 2) comes into your bakery, buys a cake, then steals your recipe, and begins producing his own copies of the cake and handing them out to everyone*. Suddenly everyone has your cakes, and you have made virtually no money for all that hard work. A little tear runs down your cheek.*Assume that in this analogy the Spy has some way of mass-producing cakes for zero cost to himself. It could happen.Depending on the size of the band, the amount of money they stand to lose varies, but there is always some impact.It's like littering. There is the mentality of "ehh, if I drop this sweet wrapper on the floor, it's not going to hurt the environment too much". And that's true. The problem is that everyone has that same mentality, and the problem stacks up until it's a real issue.Ehh. I can't decide which viewpoint I'm coming from.
I general I'd say I agree 98% with Grandy's post above.
If it really WERE like this, that'd basically mean the artists would have to perform the song each time they made a CD. Which they don't. As Grandy said.
However, Im not going to pay 25 bucks to hear one song on an album I like and risk the rest of it being crap. Because lets face it, Making music is not hard work (in the traditional sense). Very few musicians face the workplace dangers and hazzards that say, a construction worker or Oilfield worker does. They are never going to have a malpractice suit for a surgery mistake on their hands. So forgive me for thinking that they dont seserve 6,7 or 8 figure a year.
Here's how I see it. I could jump in the car, drive 15-20 miles to a decent record store, buy a shrink wrapped CD, drive back home, use tire rubber, buy gas, encourage the drilling and manufacturing of plastics and gas, pollute the roads, force the companies to produce another CD for the one I bought, and require the production of more materials to make it, or use the bare minimum amount of electricity. By downloading music, I save the environment.
