Post by servant on Sept 24, 2008 2:39:03 GMT -5
Mine is a choice rebuttal of the following:
All music companies know that their songs will get downloaded. This doesn't stop them regardless, because plentiful people still purchase the music, their music gets used in movies and, surprise, people that download music occasionally also buy it.
Are we being "evil" and killing motivation and economy? I say no; if you put candy in front of a baby, you can't expect it to let the candy lie there if it really likes the candy. The music companies need to learn to adjust and adapt to the internets. Morality is of no issue in today's world much, and so long as it doesn't directly hurt whoever's doing it, your preaching falls on deaf ears. Certainly mine, at the very least.
There're cases where people who download albums cannot afford to buy them. (don't bash this, seriously, those people exist. take it from me) Thus, by downloading, they can still listen to the songs, and instead use that money for other businesses. If I don't buy CDs for 100$, I can buy something else for that; suppose I buy Final Fantasy 8 instead. All this is doing is redirect money from the entertainment sectors (games, movies and music) towards other sectors, whose products cannot be downloaded legally.
What the multimedia producers need to do is step up and devise some way to go against this. To counter anime fansubbing, for example, GONZO's releasing their anime online for a small contribution determined by the downloader[/i], meaning you could pay as little as $0.01 or as high as $100 for their anime episodes. Will people put these episodes online for others to download freely? Yes. But at least GONZO has distributed itself, gained the sympathy of many others who pay a small donation and will have some control over the market.
tl;dr I don't think it really matters, economies should adapt and not just remain stale and hope people won't (ab)use the resources available to them.
All music companies know that their songs will get downloaded. This doesn't stop them regardless, because plentiful people still purchase the music, their music gets used in movies and, surprise, people that download music occasionally also buy it.
Are we being "evil" and killing motivation and economy? I say no; if you put candy in front of a baby, you can't expect it to let the candy lie there if it really likes the candy. The music companies need to learn to adjust and adapt to the internets. Morality is of no issue in today's world much, and so long as it doesn't directly hurt whoever's doing it, your preaching falls on deaf ears. Certainly mine, at the very least.
There're cases where people who download albums cannot afford to buy them. (don't bash this, seriously, those people exist. take it from me) Thus, by downloading, they can still listen to the songs, and instead use that money for other businesses. If I don't buy CDs for 100$, I can buy something else for that; suppose I buy Final Fantasy 8 instead. All this is doing is redirect money from the entertainment sectors (games, movies and music) towards other sectors, whose products cannot be downloaded legally.
What the multimedia producers need to do is step up and devise some way to go against this. To counter anime fansubbing, for example, GONZO's releasing their anime online for a small contribution determined by the downloader[/i], meaning you could pay as little as $0.01 or as high as $100 for their anime episodes. Will people put these episodes online for others to download freely? Yes. But at least GONZO has distributed itself, gained the sympathy of many others who pay a small donation and will have some control over the market.
tl;dr I don't think it really matters, economies should adapt and not just remain stale and hope people won't (ab)use the resources available to them.
I did post in shades of grey if anyone even remembers that lmao