| 99cents a song, say 15 songs a CD, that still only 15$ for a CD, pretty cheap and you guarentee your CD is 100% material you love (And here in Canada you are entitled to one legal copy of any media you own for archivial/backup/perosnal use, I used to copy a lot of my CD's for my car, but burns degrade so fast as to make them not worth it, cheaper to replace the CD if it gets fucked or such at the odds of it happening)
And contrary to popular belief buying the CD (or software) does not mean you now own that material, because of the inherint nature of intellectual property (no true physical form) a differnet set of ownership rules need to apply. You are essentially renting the service of that software/song, under certian rules, the least of which is that you will not give away something you do not own to other people. You do not have the right ot dictate to someone else that their effort will given away (or taken) by you with no compensation to them. It's the same as saying "You are a bitch, you will now take it in the ass from me, for your time is worth nothing, and you are worth nothing, bow down and lick my shit for I am your supreme master you unworthy fuck face piece of shit", and no one I mean NO ONE has the right to dictate the self worth of another human being. So yeah you pirate/share music, then literally taking it in the ass in jail is 100% proper justice for metaphoriclly doing it up the ass of the artists you degraded.
Does the price of music seem a little high?
Well consider:
1 year to write/master/record the average album
Say it only takes you three months to wrote the music, well say an 8 hour day, 10 bucks an hour, you have now made about 4 or 5 thousand dollars. (in debt, cause you have not recieved payment for this music yet), then recording (usually about 20$ an hour for mid level studio up here), say a month their. (another 4 grand gone), then amstering (prices range from 10-100grand depending who you get to do it), and of course marketing, promotions etc.
Artists make litterally a dollar or less a CD (more for music played on air), now if you hit it off you stand to make some cash, but just because aperson is rich, does not make it any more correct to steal from them. Besides the law that protects their msuic from theft also says it hits public after so much time (usally 10-15 years after the original recording, depends on country, renewal of copyrights, etc), so in the end most artists make a living providing you with something you enjoy, so why not pay them for it.
Now I'll admit prices are high and the inudsrty is making mistakes (raising prices to cover losses, instead of lowering prices to encourage poeople to make legal purchases, heavy handed copyright measures), but their is always underground music (cheaper, and quite often better consistancy), and of course only buying the songs you want online.
It's funny how many people use the price of music as an excuse to steal it. If I walk into a high end leather store and just walk off with say a 1000$ jacket, would you allow it cause I felt the price was too high for the jackjet?
As for the other part, esseintialy cheaters are using sony's anti-piracy software to hide their cheats (since it hides files form snooping so it can hide itself and protect itself form being forced to shutdown and thus bypassed) |