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[Bullitt]

Ok, choose to "steal, "pirate", etc. My take is: I enjoy the music, but I do not enjoy monetarily supporting the bigwigs and asshats in the music labels, RIAA, etc. My purchasing a CD from them is just another mojito on the beach for some overpaid exec who is jabbing away on the phone to his buddies about more DRM strategies to further put a stranglehold on the public's ability to use music files, while his bimbo of a wife is asking her tennis coach if she should get a boob job.

I do however love financially supporting independent and local artists who haven't let their work get prostituted out.

Originally Posted by dar512

How would you feel if you found out that one or more of your stolen songs had some of smoothmonikers work in it?

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[dar512]

Originally Posted by Bullitt

Ok, choose to "steal, "pirate", etc. My take is: I enjoy the music, but I do not enjoy monetarily supporting the bigwigs and asshats in the music labels, RIAA, etc. My purchasing a CD from them is just another mojito on the beach for some overpaid exec who is jabbing away on the phone to his buddies about more DRM strategies to further put a stranglehold on the public's ability to use music files, while his bimbo of a wife is asking her tennis coach if she should get a boob job.

Oh, please. Have you stopped paying for gas because big oil is making record profits?

This is just an excuse to get something for nothing. You want to boycott the major labels? Stop listening to their music.

[Bullitt]

Originally Posted by dar512

Oh, please. Have you stopped paying for gas because big oil is making record profits?

This is just an excuse to get something for nothing. You want to boycott the major labels? Stop listening to their music.

No because I don't have another choice than to buy gas for my car. There's no puiblic transportation here, and biking is out of the question due to distance. If someone was cloning gasoline and giving it away on the street corner, I would sure as hell be in line to get some.

How about I keep listening to the music, but do my share to make it that much less profitable for them. Sounds like a better way to boycott to me, so I'll keep doing it. Cheers.

[dar512]

Originally Posted by Bullitt

How about I keep listening to the music, but do my share to make it that much less profitable for them. Sounds like a better way to boycott to me, so I'll keep doing it. Cheers.

I'm sure you will do as you like; but it's certainly not an ethical way to live. Just because something is easy to do, and just because a lot of people are doing it, doesn't make it right.

Your conscience must be pretty gullible to fall for such a flimsy excuse as that.

[Bullitt]

Originally Posted by dar512

Just because something is easy to do, and just because a lot of people are doing it, doesn't make it right.

Right on.

Your conscience must be pretty gullible to fall for such a flimsy excuse as that.

Not so much.
I don't mean to give the impression that I download every piece of music I have. I have used iTunes before, but it frustrated me that I couldn't do what I wanted with the music files I downloaded and paid for. I wasn't trying to do anything illegal with them either mind you. And like I said, I love supporting local artists by attending their shows/concerts and buying their CD's and merchandise. Same with groups like the Cleveland Orchestra, etc. I just have a problem with paying for music that is mostly benfiting people who having nothing to do with the creation of said music.

[Sheldonrs]

Originally Posted by dar512

I'm sure you will do as you like; but it's certainly not an ethical way to live. Just because something is easy to do, and just because a lot of people are doing it, doesn't make it right.

Your conscience must be pretty gullible to fall for such a flimsy excuse as that.

Well, we've all given in to pier pressure sometime.

[dar512]

Originally Posted by Sheldonrs

Well, we've all given in to pier pressure sometime.

Good pun.