Your views on illegal downloading.

[AgnesIO]

I just keep a personal vow then when/if I get extremely rich, I'll walk into HMV with my hard drive and a grand and just say, "Right, I need every album on here. Kapeesh?" . Then they'd all just be kept in a library at my house or something and never opened.

haha, you will get very rich then go bust "Right now I am rich lets waste it!"

Loving the idea though haha. You could charge people to listen to WHATEVER songs they like, on the deal they can get free drinks at your house

[Black_Apalachi]

Lol I didn't think of it like that .

[ToxicMint]

I dont see any reason for illegal downloading, I can never find anything I want when I try to download stuff this way, I just use iTunes, means you get professional quality without having to buy a whole CD etc.

[x-glow]

Tbh I dont think it is bad at all, Im using a nulled version of windows atm, like I downloaded that, one thing I dont download is music, cause you can get caught esaly, instead I get every album realsed a week for £3 a week. Not bad really, consifdering Im getting a profit off £34.76 a week @ school selling them, and movies I get profit too, but downloading tbh isnt bad. Also cause ive got every albumk out scince 2004, I dont really need to download it.

[Inspiration]

In my opinion It's fine to download illegal software offline as long as it Isn't too extreme.

Music is also fine to download if your not using "limewire" etc as it can be risky!
However when you come to more expensive things it can be dangerous and risky so going back on point it depends on what your downloading

[AgnesIO]

Tbh I dont think it is bad at all, Im using a nulled version of windows atm, like I downloaded that, one thing I dont download is music, cause you can get caught esaly, instead I get every album realsed a week for £3 a week. Not bad really, consifdering Im getting a profit off £34.76 a week @ school selling them, and movies I get profit too, but downloading tbh isnt bad. Also cause ive got every albumk out scince 2004, I dont really need to download it.

That is probably the worst, most pathetic, complete crap I have heard on this forum.

I haven´t heard more ******** on this forum than that..

So you have:

• EVERY album released since 2004?! You do realise that is in the 1,000s
• You say buying music is reasonable, yet you use nulled windows! Surely a safe OS, that you know will have a warranty is better than nulled crap?
• You can get caught easily?! The only people that get caught are people that download 1000s of pounds worth of music. Microsoft are more likely to care about windows than music (which they don´t own..)
• Bit of a random number isn´t it? 34.76 pounds per week? *** :S Where did you get that figure from?!

[J0SH]

It's great, I download all the time I've even used up my 500GB space.

[Lost]

It's amazing for people on the internet, because it's any music you want; for free. However it's really bad for companies like HMV or Virgin, places like that. I got some HMV vouchers a couple of birthday's ago and now I get amazon vouchers because HMV is so crap and pointless whereas you can just do it online. It's also bad for the music artists because they're not getting their fair pay if people are illegaly downloading their music, which is why iTunes is so good because the singles are so cheap, safe, virus free, AND it's legal. I sometimes actually buy music from itunes since I get itunes music vouchers, it's really handy and good. As long as things like iTunes are still on the net, i'm sure everything will be fine. But in reality I guess this will be a massive problem in the future as more people are illegaly downloading music/videos etc than actually paying for them (legally downloading).

I'm actually quite ignorant on this topic because as long as i'm getting my music for free I really don't care, but I suppose I have to look outside my little ignorant bubble and see artists's careers getting effected, not to mention all the bad things involved with illegaly downloading such as, getting charged, recieving virus's and of course the songs being tampered with and have something wrong with them.

[samsaBEAR]

To those saying that downloading is harming artists, you are wrong It's been proven that downloading helps artists in about 5 different studies. Personally i download everything, if i buy a cd on a whim, and hate it, that't £8 down the drain, but if i download it, it doesn't matter the majority of bands i like are american, and not on huge labels, so they'll charge extra for posting to the uk. I'm a student, so i'm also very poor, but just because i can't afford music, doesn't mean i shouldn't listen to it? 9 times out of 10 i'll go see them live anyway, or buy merch, so It's not like they lose out. Downloading is quick and easy, unless i become very rich i'll always download apologies for the lack of paragraphs, i'm the first one awake after a party and needed to use up all my free internet minutes

[AgnesIO]

To those saying that downloading is harming artists, you are wrong It's been proven that downloading helps artists in about 5 different studies. Personally i download everything, if i buy a cd on a whim, and hate it, that't £8 down the drain, but if i download it, it doesn't matter the majority of bands i like are american, and not on huge labels, so they'll charge extra for posting to the uk. I'm a student, so i'm also very poor, but just because i can't afford music, doesn't mean i shouldn't listen to it? 9 times out of 10 i'll go see them live anyway, or buy merch, so It's not like they lose out. Downloading is quick and easy, unless i become very rich i'll always download apologies for the lack of paragraphs, i'm the first one awake after a party and needed to use up all my free internet minutes

So not giving the artists your money is helpful?

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