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Originally Posted by Botnst
Let's say MikeMover is in a band that makes money off of recording sales. let's say instead of buying his music we download it off the Internet. Does our downloading take money out of Mike's pocket? Is that what we want to do, steal from Mike?
Or is just okay to steal from folks that we don't know? In which case, where do you live? I need a new sound system and I feel like they charge too much at Best Buy so I'm just going to steal yours.
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Personally I would rather pay mike $8 for his CD directly than pay $15 or more so the record company gets the lions share and Mike gets pennies.
And I am certain somewhere in the fine print of his contract he is prevented from doing so by those same greedy people...
I'm not ignorant to the plight of the artist...
But The RIAA does care.....this is evidenced by their willingness to sue the very people they need to survive from...the fact this actually causes people like myself to do as we do and stop purchasing altogether to not finance their lawsuit frenzy is evidence of that. Plus the declining sales they try to blame on piracy instead of disgusted customers.
Would you shop at a store if they followed you around and sued you for trying something on before you bought it with a no refund, no return policy?
And its sad that the artist has to suffer as a result of this....however if anyone can suggest how a customer can stick it to the RIAA without harming the artist there are millions of people like myself wanting to hear it.