08-11-2009, 02:29 AM
When I was 11 or 12 I would stay up till midnight recording import rock off the radio, Thursday nights 1 hour duration. I found so much cool stuff that nobody had heard of. I'd take my walkman to school and the kids thought Metallica sounded awesome even though they couldn't tell what they were singing. A lot of those old groups are still together today.
Guess I started my pirating at a young age. Obviously I was too young and waaaay too far out of the city to be able to buy an actual cassette copy of the album. Not to mention the only music store in the largest town within 300 miles didn't know about those particular bands back then.
At a certain age I began buying tapes. They didn't last very long. Then as I got older CDs came out and I replaced my tape collection with CDs. Then I slowed down on the buying when I found out that a lot of the songs I never heard before I bought weren't good anyways. The one single song I had heard got me to buy the album and I would kick myself afterwards, trade-in value 1 hour after purchase always left a bad taste.
I didn't get into downloading songs until Metallica did their friendly little lawsuit. I didn't even know much about peer to peer until Metallica put it in the news. What I learned is that bands that are more associated with capitalism and are already mainstream are against pirating. If its an up and coming band that has no recognition they love the idea of peer to peer because it can give them free advertising.
Really, these days most people will buy if they like it. And those that don't buy it are most likely not going to rush to the store if they can't download it. The old argument is stale. Stopping piracy won't increase the amount of money going to the artist. Fighting piracy is generating money for an organization that has nothing to do with the artists. If they really didn't want the piracy issue to come up then the technology for pirating wouldn't have been pushed on the public to begin with. Every now and then i'll catch a cable advert somewhere (i dont want cable in my house) and i'll see some new form of peer sharing device.
Doesn't it seem strange how a Blu-Ray burner can be released so quickly after the Blu-Ray debut? If something new is released they will also release a way to make personal counterfeits.
Think about it heh, if there really is a problem with pirating all they needed to do is release the originals and the players, not the copiers and recorders.
Oh yeah, back in the old days copies of cassettes and VHS were commonly pirated and sold, given to relatives for Christmas, birthdays, yet nobody cared.
Guess I started my pirating at a young age. Obviously I was too young and waaaay too far out of the city to be able to buy an actual cassette copy of the album. Not to mention the only music store in the largest town within 300 miles didn't know about those particular bands back then.
At a certain age I began buying tapes. They didn't last very long. Then as I got older CDs came out and I replaced my tape collection with CDs. Then I slowed down on the buying when I found out that a lot of the songs I never heard before I bought weren't good anyways. The one single song I had heard got me to buy the album and I would kick myself afterwards, trade-in value 1 hour after purchase always left a bad taste.
I didn't get into downloading songs until Metallica did their friendly little lawsuit. I didn't even know much about peer to peer until Metallica put it in the news. What I learned is that bands that are more associated with capitalism and are already mainstream are against pirating. If its an up and coming band that has no recognition they love the idea of peer to peer because it can give them free advertising.
Really, these days most people will buy if they like it. And those that don't buy it are most likely not going to rush to the store if they can't download it. The old argument is stale. Stopping piracy won't increase the amount of money going to the artist. Fighting piracy is generating money for an organization that has nothing to do with the artists. If they really didn't want the piracy issue to come up then the technology for pirating wouldn't have been pushed on the public to begin with. Every now and then i'll catch a cable advert somewhere (i dont want cable in my house) and i'll see some new form of peer sharing device.
Doesn't it seem strange how a Blu-Ray burner can be released so quickly after the Blu-Ray debut? If something new is released they will also release a way to make personal counterfeits.
Think about it heh, if there really is a problem with pirating all they needed to do is release the originals and the players, not the copiers and recorders.
Oh yeah, back in the old days copies of cassettes and VHS were commonly pirated and sold, given to relatives for Christmas, birthdays, yet nobody cared.