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I just don't. Just like I didn't think it was immoral when i used to make copies of cassettes when I was a kid.
It's illegal and i recognize that but there are a lot of illegal things that I don't consider immoral.
It doesn't feel like theft. And the reason it doesn't is that to me its not a choice of either a) buying the song or b) downloading the song. It's a choice of downloading the song or not downloading the song. There's no intention to purchase the song if i can't download it. Therefore, there is no loss of revenue to the producer. I had no intention to ever buy the song.
But copyright infringement is not about theft. It's about respecting the author's copyright. If the author has a clause that says "if you're not going to purchase it anyways, then feel free to use it"... then sure. But the author/owner has explicitly forbid you from using it. I don't see how you don't see that breaking the authors request is immoral.
If you had no interest in paying for it why are you downloading it to begin with?
You are downloading it because it has value to you, correct?
curiosity.
a friend of mine says that I need to hear this band. So I download them.
If i didn't have the opportunity to download them I wouldn't go and purchase an album just because of a recommendation. Prior to file sharing i would have had a friend make a tape of the band for me.
a friend of mine says that I need to hear this band. So I download them.
If i didn't have the opportunity to download them I wouldn't go and purchase an album just because of a recommendation. Prior to file sharing i would have had a friend make a tape of the band for me.
You can typically sample the bands music on Amazon.
But copyright infringement is not about theft. It's about respecting the author's copyright. If the author has a clause that says "if you're not going to purchase it anyways, then feel free to use it"... then sure. But the author/owner has explicitly forbid you from using it. I don't see how you don't see that breaking the authors request is immoral.
well I don't and I don't care if you don't understand why. It's no more immoral than the mixed-tape in the 1990's was immoral.
Actually the artist should be happy about it(and many are). Someone is listening to their music that otherwise wouldn't have been. That someone may tell five other people about that band and out of those five, two of them buy an album or go to a show of the band etc.
a friend of mine says that I need to hear this band. So I download them.
If i didn't have the opportunity to download them I wouldn't go and purchase an album just because of a recommendation.
Whether you can download it for free is not your decision. I don;t agree with a lot of the practices of the big media companies and I think they really need to shift to a different business model but that's up to them.
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