if you copy my music for free and don’t compensate me, how can i make living playing music? instead of a clever or satiric response, i would appreciate a thoughtful answer.

“One way or another the music labels will eventually surrender, and recorded music will be free.”

Dude, music is not going to be free, just stop that! Unless you are an artist, you’ll never understand why music cannot and will not be free.

SO STOP DREAMING PAL.

So what’s your point?

‘Stealing’ used to mean only “taking something which another was then deprived of, without their permission”.

Now it means that and also “making a copy of something witout the permission of the person who owns some sort of rights to the abstract idea imbedded in the thing you copy”.

Those two concepts are so, so different the deserve different words.

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http://en.wikip...rg/wiki/Slavery

“It’s a good point. Plagiarism is making a perfect copy of something…”

No, plagarism is claiming someone else’s work as your own. You can plagarise a CD without copying it, just play it to someone and tell the you wrote the song.

“Making a perfect copy of something” is completely legal in the sort of situation that plagirism is usually a problem – provided you credit the original author it’s then called ‘quoting’ and is often encouraged.

“… but what about everyone else? Selling t-shirts and gigs with 50 people is no living.”

If hardly anoyne is coming to your concerts then hardly anyone will buy your CDs either, even if there was no free download alternative.

Why would someone re-press a CD if people are just going to download it for free? I don’t get that logic.

As for people stating that stealing music is alright because the artists, producers, record labels are creating bad music and record labels have been ripping off the consumers for years also has a lot of clauses within that statement. Because if that is true and the fans don’t like the music “WHY” would they even chose to download it illegally? Many say because they they can. Others state because everyone else is doing it. And so much use excuses to justify their own individual excuse and what they want to use as reasoning but at the end of the day it is still stealing from the artists they proclaim aren’t living up to their own personal opinion standards of what is good.

It seems that we are living in a world that no one wants to take the responsibilities for their own actions towards a system that was created to regulate a profitable business. Chaos has been occurring in the music industry for years causing every individual including the fans in becoming the ultimate arbitrator of music and deciding on what is better than the next. So as the industry slowly falls apart into it’s free world of a non buyers market for music sales. Artists will now have to work a lot harder towards their success in their career to the art they love. They will have to perform at more concerts venues and shows in order of establishing themselves as a reputable artist in the music industry.