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disabledvet · 18th December 2003, 03:15

I just want to concur with what smt142 has to say about pay vs no pay of downloaded music. The record companies are finally waking up and realizing what they should have realized when their sales started dropping.....it wasn't the illegal file sharing that was hurting their business but the price of their music and the quality of their music. smt142 hit it right on the head. And it looks as though someone finally woke up to the facts. Too bad RIAA wouldn't wake up as well.
I used kazaa lite ++ or whatever it is called and downloaded a lot of files with it. I set the uploads to only one at a time and probably only had 20 or so people download from me in total. I did this for a reason. Every song that I downloaded I had purchased at one time or another in my lifetime (and I won't tell you how long that is but it is a long time)and either lost or gave away the tape, disk or record long ago, so I don't feel like I owe the RIAA or any record company any apologies for that. I paid for those songs at least once and sometimes twice, but I did feel a little guilty if I allowed them to be uploaded from me.
Now, what other people do is their business but I feel like I was not hurting the songwriter or performer in any way by downloading something I had already paid for. The real sad thing here is that these performers are not getting paid fairly by the record companies today. It's become a sad state of affairs in the recording industry overall when money comes before anything else, and that is why we are seeing so many artists and so much junk on CD's today. I like what is happening now with the online purchasing of music. You can get what you want and leave it at that.
So, smt142, I concur fully with what you say. You have hit the "proverbial" nail on the head. Now, maybe, we will start seeing a better overall quality of music than we have in the last three or four years...........

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18th December 2003, 03:15	#1
disabledvet Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bristol, VA Posts: 20	I just want to concur with what smt142 has to say about pay vs no pay of downloaded music. The record companies are finally waking up and realizing what they should have realized when their sales started dropping.....it wasn't the illegal file sharing that was hurting their business but the price of their music and the quality of their music. smt142 hit it right on the head. And it looks as though someone finally woke up to the facts. Too bad RIAA wouldn't wake up as well. I used kazaa lite ++ or whatever it is called and downloaded a lot of files with it. I set the uploads to only one at a time and probably only had 20 or so people download from me in total. I did this for a reason. Every song that I downloaded I had purchased at one time or another in my lifetime (and I won't tell you how long that is but it is a long time)and either lost or gave away the tape, disk or record long ago, so I don't feel like I owe the RIAA or any record company any apologies for that. I paid for those songs at least once and sometimes twice, but I did feel a little guilty if I allowed them to be uploaded from me. Now, what other people do is their business but I feel like I was not hurting the songwriter or performer in any way by downloading something I had already paid for. The real sad thing here is that these performers are not getting paid fairly by the record companies today. It's become a sad state of affairs in the recording industry overall when money comes before anything else, and that is why we are seeing so many artists and so much junk on CD's today. I like what is happening now with the online purchasing of music. You can get what you want and leave it at that. So, smt142, I concur fully with what you say. You have hit the "proverbial" nail on the head. Now, maybe, we will start seeing a better overall quality of music than we have in the last three or four years...........