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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Your arguments are just more of the "I don't like what they are selling, or how much they are selling it for, so I'll just take it arguments."
Should be left up to a band to decide if they think giving their recorded music away and making money on tour and merchandising is a better business model. Not for you as a consumer to decide that is the way they should make their money.
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Anyone in a band knows how music works and doesn't care that you got their music for free. It's the culture. If a band is hanging out listening to music, and the guitarist says to the drummer, "Hey I really like this." The guitarist isn't going to respond with "That's great! Let's get you down to the record store right now and buy you a copy."
Bands sign record deals to get their music out there. Some people will buy the records, others will get it from their friends, and others download it. I think every band knows this. Nobody who makes a movie expects everyone who has seen the movie to have purchased a ticket or a DVD. That's ridiculous. Same goes for music.
There needs to be reason on both sides here. Obviously music can't be given away but trying to crack down on the way music is shared between people is taking it way too far. You are never going to get everyone who likes a band to individually buy the music.
The current laws are working well enough (except the obscene law suits record companies are throwing around). Most casual music consumers (the people who funnel the most money into the record companies) purchase songs through iTunes. It's usually either the hardcore computer or music people that download stuff. The computer people wouldn't buy the music otherwise, and the music people buy everything to do with music anyway.