To those who buy music: Why?

[ishiki]

Gilgamesh said:

ishiki said:
why do you buy games? You can download most games for free...

Because its not 15 GB to download a song and theres no misery dealing with whether it's even going to work and if you do get it to work there's still a chance it'll stop working in the future. Not to mention if your trying to get a console version of the game you'll have to modify your system some how.

To download a song you just have to go to a website, search song, 2 seconds to download it, listen and enjoy for as long as you want.

If games were that easy the gaming industry would be screwed but it takes quite a bit of dedication to actually play an illegally downloaded game, enough dedication that most people find it easier to just buy the game.

well yes. But, I was arguing with his viewpoint that it's for some reason okay to steal music and for some reason it's not okay to steal videogames from a moral standpoint. It's essentially the same thing to steal a videogame or music from a moral standpoint and arguing that it's drastically different is nonsensical.

If you don't think it's bad  to steal digital media etc, that's you're perogative. People all have their own definitions of right and wrong. They are both illegal, but not all laws aren't the ultimate moral authority.