Is it wrong to steal music u have already bought?

[LanceBlaise]

So what ur saying is the OP should have to pay TWICE for somthing he already owns?

oh right ur a label owner, of course you want to be paid twice.....

Please if he owns it on vinyl there is no reason he should not be able to DL it from wherever and however he decides to acquire said tracks. hes not taking money or food out of your mouth, U GOT PAID ALREADY.

I bet a label owner like you cant wait for the next big media change up so everyone has to buy everything all over again, vinyl, 8 track, tape, cd, mp3. BAH!! I feel no remourse if i bought it on tape and CD Im DLing from where ever, U dont deserve to be paid twice or there times in some cases (pink floyd & green day, Im looking at u here) for somthing.

You are just a complete idiot. Its obvious you are someone who is stealing music. Its called STEALING for a reason. Don't try and rationalize the fact that you are thief. If I went and paid to see a movie at the movie theater does that give me the right just keep going into the theater and watch that movie where ever I want, cause I already aid once? Do I now have the right to download a copy of it off the internet? NO! With your f_cked up ignorant logic I should just be allowed to download every movie I have ever seen, why should I pay twice to see something. Hell I went to the bar last week and paid 25 cents to hear a song, why should I have to pay again to hear that song I already paid to listen to it, I am entitled to steal everything! I already paid to go to Disney World once, should they really expect me to keep on paying everytime I want to go there, i mean pay them twice to go on the same rides again, I already paid once, they are just trying to get money for something I already paid for right?

You are a complete moron. Its jackasses like yourself who are ruining the music industry. You are wrong, you are a thief, and youhave no justification for stealing stuff!

I don't need to get paid twice for something, unless you want 2 of something I am selling. If you want a vinyl and an mp3 then pay for both, or take your vinl and make a copy for yourself. There is a reason there are record stores and mp3 stores, because it is different merchandise. I would like to see you buy a track on beatport, then walk into a record store and feel thaat you have the right to just take a copy of it for yourself. When you decide that you are ready to do this let me know, I am interested in watching you get arrested and cry while you are hauled away in the cop car.

Again, you are an idiot, best of luck to you in your fucked up everyday life where stealing is ok as long as you can justify to yourself why you should be allowed to be a thief and not be held responsible for your sh!tty actions!












PS. Go F Yourself for thinking that all i care about is the money, its more the principal, money really comes second in this industry. We don't really make any money from sales, and as a label owner I give more money back to the artists than we keep! And as an artist, I am not making a whole boatload of money off of my productions, the money is in the touring and gigs!

[Djtom420]

You are just a complete idiot. Its obvious you are someone who is stealing music. Its called STEALING for a reason. Don't try and rationalize the fact that you are thief. If I went and paid to see a movie at the movie theater does that give me the right just keep going into the theater and watch that movie where ever I want, cause I already aid once? Do I now have the right to download a copy of it off the internet? NO! With your f_cked up ignorant logic I should just be allowed to download every movie I have ever seen, why should I pay twice to see something. Hell I went to the bar last week and paid 25 cents to hear a song, why should I have to pay again to hear that song I already paid to listen to it, I am entitled to steal everything! I already paid to go to Disney World once, should they really expect me to keep on paying everytime I want to go there, i mean pay them twice to go on the same rides again, I already paid once, they are just trying to get money for something I already paid for right?

You are a complete moron. Its jackasses like yourself who are ruining the music industry. You are wrong, you are a thief, and youhave no justification for stealing stuff!

I don't need to get paid twice for something, unless you want 2 of something I am selling. If you want a vinyl and an mp3 then pay for both, or take your vinl and make a copy for yourself. There is a reason there are record stores and mp3 stores, because it is different merchandise. I would like to see you buy a track on beatport, then walk into a record store and feel thaat you have the right to just take a copy of it for yourself. When you decide that you are ready to do this let me know, I am interested in watching you get arrested and cry while you are hauled away in the cop car.

Again, you are an idiot, best of luck to you in your fucked up everyday life where stealing is ok as long as you can justify to yourself why you should be allowed to be a thief and not be held responsible for your sh!tty actions!












PS. Go F Yourself for thinking that all i care about is the money, its more the principal, money really comes second in this industry. We don't really make any money from sales, and as a label owner I give more money back to the artists than we keep! And as an artist, I am not making a whole boatload of money off of my productions, the money is in the touring and gigs!

All the things U just described, going to SEE A MOVIE, GOING TO DISNEY LAND, are all things u pay to GO AND DO!!!!!!!! If i buy a DVD that gives me the right to either rip it or if its easier i can just DL it from pirates bay. None the less i bought it! i own it! can do with it as i see fit! when i buy a record or an mp3 im not buying a one time experience. However if i lose my copy of windows XP or OS x but sill have my KEY I can go and download a new copy of windows or OSx from either TPB or MS type in my key and im ready to go. U need to stop compairing ur product to that of one time experience products.

and for the record I DONT DL pirated music, i do however support the new technology and ideas such as torrents which are graet for sharing linux distros, drivers, firmwares, and copys of say John dig weeds weekly radio show and any other number of podcasts that choose to go with torrents as a form of distro.

And for the record its not pirating music that is causing the industry to suffer, its 2 fold: 1, CRAP MUSIC, not so much EDM but just about everything else out there is dog crap. and 2, dinosaur record labels that refuse to get with the times, its 2010 for godsakes, napster was 10 years ago. Its just like movie industry going on and on about piracy is killing the movie busines when no its ur CRAPPY remakes and countless sequals that are making people want to stay home and just dl it from netflix.

but like u said, im an idiot, moron and I can go F myself & my crappy life ehy thanks nice to meet u to. such civil conversation. Worst part is i believe i have a couple of ur tracks somewhere i got off of beatport. or tracksource....... hmmmm.....

JEsus even apple lets u re DL a song if ur hard drive crashed.

[LanceBlaise]

All the things U just described, going to SEE A MOVIE, GOING TO DISNEY LAND, are all things u pay to GO AND DO!!!!!!!! If i buy a DVD that gives me the right to either rip it or if its easier i can just DL it from pirates bay. None the less i bought it! i own it! can do with it as i see fit! when i buy a record or an mp3 im not buying a one time experience. However if i lose my copy of windows XP or OS x but sill have my KEY I can go and download a new copy of windows or OSx from either TPB or MS type in my key and im ready to go. U need to stop compairing ur product to that of one time experience products.

and for the record I DONT DL pirated music, i do however support the new technology and ideas such as torrents which are graet for sharing linux distros, drivers, firmwares, and copys of say John dig weeds weekly radio show and any other number of podcasts that choose to go with torrents as a form of distro.

And for the record its not pirating music that is causing the industry to suffer, its 2 fold: 1, CRAP MUSIC, not so much EDM but just about everything else out there is dog crap. and 2, dinosaur record labels that refuse to get with the times, its 2010 for godsakes, napster was 10 years ago. Its just like movie industry going on and on about piracy is killing the movie busines when no its ur CRAPPY remakes and countless sequals that are making people want to stay home and just dl it from netflix.

but like u said, im an idiot, moron and I can go F myself & my crappy life ehy thanks nice to meet u to. such civil conversation.

JEsus even apple lets u re DL a song if ur hard drive crashed.

Keep on telling yourself whatever you need to so you can sleep at night. Stealing is wrong, or it wouldn't be called stealing. Apparently you are living in some magical world of gumdrops and unicorns where stealing music is great and everyone loves stealing music because in your magic land its considered supporting new technology or something stupid like that...

You're wrong, you know it, keep making up excuses though as to why you should be allowed to steal the music... this will make everything all better! You are supporting torrents and blog sites that pirate music when you use them. If your sh!tty PC crashes and you must go purchase a new track then go purchase a new one. If you were smart enough to back up your music then you wouldn't be stealing these so called "lost copies". If you never owned it on MP3 then buy it. Its f_cking $2.49 at most! Just because you own it on a cd doesn't mean you can just steal the MP3, if it weren't illegal then we wouldn't be having this conversation, but it is illegal, so you are stupid for trying to argue the point here!

[Djtom420]

Keep on telling yourself whatever you need to so you can sleep at night. Stealing is wrong, or it wouldn't be called stealing. Apparently you are living in some magical world of gumdrops and unicorns where stealing music is great and everyone loves stealing music because in your magic land its considered supporting new technology or something stupid like that...

You're wrong, you know it, keep making up excuses though as to why you should be allowed to steal the music... this will make everything all better! You are supporting torrents and blog sites that pirate music when you use them. If your sh!tty PC crashes and you must go purchase a new track then go purchase a new one. If you were smart enough to back up your music then you wouldn't be stealing these so called "lost copies". If you never owned it on MP3 then buy it. Its f_cking $2.49 at most!

Yes just ignore the logic and keep going on about how i live in a magical world of unicorns and gummy Jesus beasts. I made sold points and u ignore them obviously we wont agree on this because u have a vested financial interest in this issue where as i do not as i am not a label owner. I gusse if i where a label owner then my attitude would be, HELL YEAH PAY ME TWICE B*ATCH!!!

And where did the "I support blog sites that pirate music" thingy come from? I never once mentioned anything about blog sites. infact i rarly even read blogs with the exception of this site and pocket 5's. but i gusse i must have said somthing will i was tripping out about unicorns, ogres, and wizards with sleeves as the wide as the eye can see.

I don't support downloading an album just cause u don't want to pay for it but if u own it already and just want it in a digital form then whatever means u go through to achieve aforementioned goal is up to u. I dont see it as stealing but again i don't own a label and if i did im sure i would want to get paid as many times as i could.

[The Vly]

Lance,
I'm gonna have to disagree with you on this one.
First off, downloading an MP3 or anything digital really can't be considered "stealing". Illegal, wrong, etc.... sure, but it's not stealing.
When I steal something, it means the owner no longer has it. If I steal a CD or a couch from someone, it means that person no longer has a couch or CD to use. I've taken something away from that person.
But when I download anything digitally (intangible media), I'm not excluding anyone else from having access to it. Nothing happens to the file.
This is part of the reason that the lawsuits involving Kazaa and all had to change their lingo from "stealing" to "illegally downloading".

if it weren't illegal then we wouldn't be having this conversation, but it is illegal, so you are stupid for trying to argue the point here!

I also would have to disagree here. Saying that one end of an argument is invalid because it's justifying illegal activities is just blatantly wrong. Smoking weed is illegal. Driving 66mph on a 65mph zone is illegal. All of Wikileaks' activity is illegal. If the government tells me I can't look at the leaked documents because it's illegal, I am breaking the law. But am I doing anything wrong? I don't think so. Calling someone stupid because they're arguing on the illegal side doesn't make sense.


That aside, I still buy all of my music. While I disagree with the industry as a whole (paying $2.49 for an MP3?!), I'd still rather get some money to the artist. However if I own a physical copy of the music, I do not repurchase an MP3 album (although I have bought an MP3 album and later bought it on vinyl). A lot of labels include a free CD or download key with new releases now anyways.

I think it's just pretty dumb to expect fans to pay for an MP3 if they've bought the vinyl. If you buy a CD, you can burn it to your PC. So you're telling Vinyl fans that to have both, they should buy both? Ehh that just isn't going to work.

[Bassline Brine]

This whole argument brings up a ton of gray area.

Personally, I'm under the belief if you owned something in the past (a record or cd) that potentially got scratched/broken/lost, then you shouldn't feel guilt at downloading it again "illegally" to get a legitimate copy back.

That being said, the tables turn when someone downloads something for free that they haven't owned at all in the past. That, I consider stealing. Whereas the above example, I consider recovery.

It's semantics at it's best, a funny line to walk. Everyone has their own opinions on it, and people ARE NOT going to agree.

What it can come down to though, is just be prepared to pay any consequences for your actions. If it's illegal, even if you feel justified in doing it, you better own up to it if someone calls you out on it. Be it a lawsuit, or just your buddy giving you a hard time. I think that's the thing that people bother me the most with all this bullshit.

Just do WHATEVER you want to do in life, but be prepared to pay the consequences for it. Be it working a good job so you have a steady paycheck, or downloading music illegally. Just own up to it. If it's what you want to do, you're going to do it.

Hell, I smoke the reefer, and that's technically illegal. Have I been caught? No. If I was caught, would I own up to it? Yes. It's little different with downloading music, except it's a hell of a lot easier not to be caught.

[Djtom420]

A lot of labels include a free CD or download key with new releases now anyways.

.

Honestly I havent bought vinyl in years probably like since 04. Are labels really including cds with vinyl now or atleasty an easy way to get\DL an mp3?


that is very very cool!!!

[completej]

If you've ever smoked weed and made a tune, you have contributed to terrorism.

[Djtom420]

If you've ever smoked weed and made a tune, you have contributed to terrorism.

LOL not me im in california, all are stuff is growen locally....

[djhipnotikk]

You are just a complete idiot. Its obvious you are someone who is stealing music. Its called STEALING for a reason. Don't try and rationalize the fact that you are thief. If I went and paid to see a movie at the movie theater does that give me the right just keep going into the theater and watch that movie where ever I want, cause I already aid once? Do I now have the right to download a copy of it off the internet? NO! With your f_cked up ignorant logic I should just be allowed to download every movie I have ever seen, why should I pay twice to see something. Hell I went to the bar last week and paid 25 cents to hear a song, why should I have to pay again to hear that song I already paid to listen to it, I am entitled to steal everything! I already paid to go to Disney World once, should they really expect me to keep on paying everytime I want to go there, i mean pay them twice to go on the same rides again, I already paid once, they are just trying to get money for something I already paid for right?

You are a complete moron. Its jackasses like yourself who are ruining the music industry. You are wrong, you are a thief, and youhave no justification for stealing stuff!

I don't need to get paid twice for something, unless you want 2 of something I am selling. If you want a vinyl and an mp3 then pay for both, or take your vinl and make a copy for yourself. There is a reason there are record stores and mp3 stores, because it is different merchandise. I would like to see you buy a track on beatport, then walk into a record store and feel thaat you have the right to just take a copy of it for yourself. When you decide that you are ready to do this let me know, I am interested in watching you get arrested and cry while you are hauled away in the cop car.

Again, you are an idiot, best of luck to you in your fucked up everyday life where stealing is ok as long as you can justify to yourself why you should be allowed to be a thief and not be held responsible for your sh!tty actions!

would you stop making this argument already? people ripping an mp3 *IS NOT* the same as walking into a store and taking something.

it *IS NOT* the same as using services and goods from a place like disney world, the movie theatre, a bar jukebox. IT IS NOT. must i break it down for you? obviously.

the things you're relating music piracy to USE RESOURCES, take capital/actual inventory/time&money from the company:

at the movie theatre, you occupy a seat that could be used for a paying customer if you sneak in.

for a jukebox, you'd be utilizing extra electricity (negligible, but i'll give it you) and the time it takes for the song to play (which could be used for other songs to play from paying patrons).

for disney world.. their service is the unique atmosphere they offer, so yeah sneaking in would be wrong.

^^ THESE ARE ALL STEALING ^^

now, downloading a song *you already own* for free:

1. *DOES NOT* remove any "stock" from the shelves, therefore it does not hinder the ability for others to obtain it

2. *DOES NOT* decrease the potential customer base, as the person obtaining the file already has a copy of it. THERE IS NO OVERHEAD in creating a digital copy of a song. it's not like they're out big bucks if they don't move 1000 mp3's. get real.

4. *DOES NOT* mean they support piracy. They could obtain this file from other networks outside the huge p2p ones. which means..

3. *IS EXACTLY THE SAME* as if they ripped it from their vinyl/CD. E.X.A.C.T.L.Y. instead of ripping it, they went and got a digital copy. the end result? a digital version of a song on their hard drive. it was going to happen either way.

i think it's the old school heads who are getting so worked up over this, they don't seem to have a full grasp on how the internet works.

EDIT:

Honestly I havent bought vinyl in years probably like since 04. Are labels really including cds with vinyl now or atleasty an easy way to get\DL an mp3?


that is very very cool!!!

yes i've bought many vinyls that offer a digital download copy.

now WHY would record companies do this if it were wrong? the labels stand with us on this one. they think if you own a vinyl, you can own a digital copy as well. FOR FREE.