It amazes me how easy it is to steal artist’s music on the web, sometimes without knowing you are doing it.
I would have expected that to get music that wasn’t released freely by an artist, you’d have to at least find SOME secret code, or go to some back-door torrent site or something.
But I’ve been looking for album covers for my old albums (I’ve been taking my albums and making mp3’s for my player, and didn’t want to take pictures of the album covers). And most of the time, I find nice links to sites where someone has already created MP3s for the albums.
But clearly, these are all unauthorized. And nobody seems to care that artists aren’t getting paid for their work.
Imagine if some guy was good at woodworking, so he’d find logs, cut them up, and make things, and put them in his front yard.
And then, people would just walk by, and instead of buying them, they’d take the things, and replace them with logs.
I don’t think people would defend that kind of action, but maybe they would — we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.
Before the invention of the printing press, if you wanted a copy of a book, or sheet music, you sat down and hand copied it or paid somebody else to do it for you.
Looks like we have come full circle.
One more thing, the studios consider you a pirate for converting your albums to MP3.
Actually your comparison makes no sense. The artists still have their music while the woodcarver would not. Copyright and stealing are NOT the same no matter how many times people say so.
I am not advocating taking artists work, but a more realistic copyright law instead of the virtually never ending one we have now, and the making of works available would end a lot of this.
There is no reason movies made in 1933 should still be under copyright and no reason Song of the South is still not available in the US. But you can easily get it on torrents, along with many other movies the studios refuse to sell.
So people download it cause it is the only way to get it. Does it make it right? Well, maybe not, but if they don’t want the money, then why are they bitching about downloads.
Actually your comparison makes no sense. The artists still have their music while the woodcarver would not. Copyright and stealing are NOT the same no matter how many times people say so.
I am not advocating taking artists work, but a more realistic copyright law instead of the virtually never ending one we have now, and the making of works available would end a lot of this.
There is no reason movies made in 1933 should still be under copyright and no reason Song of the South is still not available in the US. But you can easily get it on torrents, along with many other movies the studios refuse to sell.
So people download it cause it is the only way to get it. Does it make it right? Well, maybe not, but if they don’t want the money, then why are they bitching about downloads.