Is it wrong to steal music u have already bought?

[maxonemillionone]

I would like to dispel any rumors of sub-perfect quality from torrent websites. Perhaps none of you have heard but there is such a thing as a private tracker, and the conditions of being a member means regularly submitting perfect rips and downloading/seeding to keep the seed/download ratio's positive.

On the topic of downloading music. Open source for life. You do it for the crowd, energy, music, and punani not for the money. So if you are going to compare your self to your favorite producer and say it's not worth doing because you aren't going to get paid; well then I say you are a greedy bastard.

[completej]

if he had a cd and lost it, surely he wouldnt go into a store to steal another one.

but if you have COD4:MW2 purchased via steam and you lose your media, they allow you to download another copy to your hdd so you can continue with what you purchased in the past.

itunes also, though one time only, allows you to re-download music in the event of a harddrive crash.

so if you own the vinyl, havent lost it, i dont see a problem to recoup that music through a different medium.

beatport stands different, you have to download each version differently. if you download a wav, you *should* be allowed to download each sub-version for free (imo, flame away) as it costs more, and can reproduce the other versions with the right technical know-how (Read: google)

[Sherlock Ohms]

Open source for life. You do it for the crowd, energy, music, and punani not for the money. Greedy bastards.

Meanwhile, back on planet earth ...

[Abyrne7]

I just think record companies used to stick it to the public by making us buy a collection of say 15 songs with only one song we liked out of those 15. Meaning you were buying songs you did'nt even really want. Now in todays genration the public is just sticking it back to those guys who made rediculous amount of money. They wern't thinking with the times and they gut burned for it. Don't blame the public blame the software developers and record companies in my opinion.

I know it hurts the artist in the long run and ts not legal, bla bla bla. I for one buy 99% of my music just for the ease of use and quality. But if I cant find it anywhere else I will download it illegally just because the resource is there. (and I am sure people do the same) It's just human nature..the average joe does not give a shit about anyone else but themselves when it comes to listening to music and it's not going to change. If it wasnt downloading it illegally it would be recording tapes off the radio or something of the like. We are in a funny stage. Eventually over time the public decides what they like and how they listen to music and how they buy it. Just like how everyhting else evolves in the world. Don't worry mega artists will still be super rich and the struggling artist will still be struggling.

Anywas my rant is over and I don't rant much haha

[maxonemillionone]

Meanwhile, back on planet earth ...

Dudechadbro, are you telling me you don't think getting truck loads of fine poon tang for being behind the booth isn't worth being a DJ?

[Sherlock Ohms]

Dudechadbro, are you telling me you don't think getting truck loads of fine poon tang for being behind the booth isn't worth being a DJ?

If I got 'truck loads of fine poon tang' from anyone other than the wife, she'd have words ...

[BigUns]

Slightly off topic, but if my laptop hard drive fails and I have no backup of the 1000+ tunes all bought from beatport, can i re-download them (from beatport) (for free)?

[Djtom420]

Devils Advocate :

By downloading Torrents you are supporting torrent uploaders and piracy, whether you have previously bought the product is irrelevant. Buying it may put money in the pockets of the artist but its still helping the piracy industry if you then download it so you are giving with one hand and taking with another, so to speak (not exactly but you get the point).


This is statement on the question, it is not my opinion on whether its good, bad or indifferent so guys spare me the lecture on piracy.

Hi everyone, Long time lurker, first time poster. To the OP, no I dont think thats an issue, infact i do the same.

This is just like Dookie (green Day) ALL over again, I bought that album at 15 on tape. then again at 17 on CD, then again somewhere around 20. Thats 3 times Green day got paid. Thats not right.

The guy above here, use words like industry to describe piracy. What is the piracy industry u speak of? The pirates bay makes no money from piracy, nor do an of the other torrent sites. sure they sell adverts but what site dosnt? The only people profiting off of piracy are those illegal Aliens in downtown Los Angeles that pop up in the middle of Santy alley with a blankiet full of pirated DVDS laided out on the concrete.. THEY MAKE MONEY.

[completej]

hell, even microsoft cares not for single torrenters, and made that statement clear when windows 7 betas and RCs were available.

they care about the mass-piraters who are burnings thousands, millions, of their software and selling them on the black market.

the 100 or so downloads of ke$ha's tiktok remix is not breaking anyone's bank...

[Djtom420]

think of it this way...

If you bought a CD and lost it, is it ok for you to go into a store and steal one for yourself? I mean hey you already bought the CD once right?

With your ogic you should be allowed to steal a new one for yourself. The word steal means you are doing something wrong, so i think it goes without saying that your are doing something wrong...

How do u figure?

Walking into a store an stealing a physical copy of somthing is theft. Downloading somthing is available to EVERYONE who loads the page, IS FAR FROM walking into a store an stealing.