haxxiy said:
If I seem a bit too rude, forgive me, but I study law in college and self-righteous paladins with dodgy logics like these simply piss me off like hell. It's the same kind of people that would put someone in jail for pedo for dating someone who's 17 years and 364 days simply because it's in the Code, and well, thinking reasonably spends too much brain power, so why bother. |
Talking about illegal downloading regarding music, if copyright infringement is not theft, then explain how that many teenagers today have never bought any music, EVER!!! I'm a songwriter/producer, and when I check out some forums such as soompi.com, which is a Korean drama and pop music forum, many members have never bought music, at all, period. And the concept of using their allowance to buy music, like I did when I was a teenager, is an inconceivable idea to most of them. And yet, in national research, many teenagers value their music collection above everything else, more than movies or games. You're telling me that if they didn't have access to the internet, they would have no music at all?? Bullshit.
Don't tell me that illegal downloading is not affecting music sales. Not all songwriters perform their own music and the very best pure songwriters like Diane Warren and Craig Wiseman don't sing their own music, and thank god, because I've heard Craig Wiseman try to sing his own songs before and he's a horrible singer but he's an incredible songwriter (he wrote 'Live Like You Were Dying' and many others). And if you ask legendary songwriter Lamont Dozier, he said that his royalties have been cut by 60% in the last decade by illegal downloading. And in Nashville, staff songwriter positions have virtually disappeared. So don't tell me it's not stealing, because that's BS.
