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RE: Downloading songs
if someone takes a book, photocopies all the pages, and makes loads of exact replicas, then gives them away for free, understandably the author is going to get pretty annoyed.

Put that analogy on a song, and you can see why record companies and artists are getting pissed off. The only way to stop people from doing it, is by scaring them, or making the network incredibly slow, and flooding the network with fake copies of the song, hopefuly it will make KaZaA and such like so hard to use, people will give up.

If you want to download music, then do it, but dont complain when you get a letter from the record compaines fining you.

You can leagaly download music from many companies like Apple iTunes and dotmusic.

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Originally posted by kangie
well.... i never see the point in spending £15.99 on an album, when i can get the one song i actually want, for free :P cos not all good songs are buyable, or releasd as singles.... mmmm.... as for the ones where you pay, you wont get the range of obsure music as ya do on something like kazaa....

£15.99? try www.cdwow.com

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It has been proven that pop/rock sales are now down because of the P2P software. However Trance music sales have increased dramatically. I suppose it has it good and bad sides like everything. :undecided:

What do you do in cases like that? Weight up the + rev and - rev sales and go with which one is better? :undecided:

Some would say its unfair on other aspects of the music industry.
03-16-2004 09:56 PM
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yeah but theres no fun in doing it that way...theres no danger, no excitement lol and the more ppl tell us to stop doin it then the more they gonna do it jus 2 piss ppl off

exaxctly y pay £15 or $15 4 an album wen u only want 1 song??? its stupid wen u fink bout it
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yeah but theres no fun in doing it that way...theres no danger, no excitement lol and the more ppl tell us to stop doin it then the more they gonna do it jus 2 piss ppl off

exaxctly y pay £15 or $15 4 an album wen u only want 1 song??? its stupid wen u fink bout it
£15 is better that bout ummm £1000??
03-16-2004 10:00 PM
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so ur tellin me that u neva dwnload music, u neva record vids off ov mtv, u neva record off the radio and u neva record songs from CD to tape.

it dnt mata how u do it, its all copyright and they cnt put a stop to it so bother trying
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ummm i don't use kazaa  (lieing) :dodgy: but recording mtv is just lame :refuck: i don't listen to the radio :) and its called a cd rewriter :) well in my case dvd rewriter :) ;) :lol:
03-16-2004 10:05 PM
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its all copyright
Er... not all of what you listed is no a copyright infringment. For example if you own the oringal copy of a CD some companies allow you to make an "exact replica" as long as its isnt for profit making purposes.

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u havent gote this RIAAA thingy here.
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u havent gote this RIAAA thingy here.
thankyou for telling us... :dodgY:
03-17-2004 07:18 PM
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maybe we would by the cd's if it wasnt so freaking expensive, im not gona spend $30.00(asutralian) on every singer i like! i have no money as it is
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