Record labels sue LimeWire for... wait for it... $75 TRILLION.

[Conservative,]

It's true that some people do that. But he said for example " It pisses me off to no end seeing the movie and music industry carrying on about "losses of revenue" due to "losses of sales" when infact the person would not of bought the track anyway. ". Most people who download free illegal music would buy it if they couldn't get it free.

I mean if you like listening to music and you can't get it any other way then you will buy it. This argument of "downloading it just because you can" doesn't go down very well with me. You either like and want to listen to music or you don't.

But my point is - I have several songs by artists I don't particularly like (eg; Justin Bieber, Adele etc.) who I would have never have bought the song of anyway, so the record companies didn't lose out there - I only downloaded it for DJing.

[Eoin247]

But my point is - I have several songs by artists I don't particularly like (eg; Justin Bieber, Adele etc.) who I would have never have bought the song of anyway, so the record companies didn't lose out there - I only downloaded it for DJing.

Really though, that's the exception. Most people don't download songs that they don't like whether it's free or not. There's loads of handy and free software on the internet. Yet do you download all of it just because it's free? If you don't like it/wont use it, then why download it?

[GommeInc]

Really though, that's the exception. Most people don't download songs that they don't like whether it's free or not. There's loads of handy and free software on the internet. Yet do you download all of it just because it's free? If you don't like it/wont use it, then why download it?

An interesting point. I only get things I like so downloading illegally would be pointless to try out a song, hence why I've never seen the point in illegally downloading songs. Quite a few people, however, dislike the capitalism involved in the music industry where organisations seem to be profiteering off of good music talent where the "talent" does not get a fair enough share or the money involved in buying a song doesn't justify it. 70p could be considered a lot for something that doesn't "exist" and you will get bored of soon. An argument I can think of is the Games vs. Films vs. Music, where people consider a game more desirable than music because a game lasts longer and comes in a physical form making it somewhat desirable.