music downloaders not caring
Legal Issues Don’t Bother American Downloaders. Kind of an interesting article with real statistics about file trading.
Lower courts can spit out rulings for the next decade that support entertainment industry claims, but as they say you can’t legislate morality. Research from Ipsos-Reid validates this saying as it shows that a significant percentage of Americans feel file trading is OK.
The latest finding from TEMPO, the company’s quarterly study of digital music consumer activities, shows almost one-fifth of the US population over 12 has downloaded music in the last 30 days. Of that number only 21% feel that free downloading hurts artists. Only 9% feel that downloadling a file is wrong.
The latest finding from TEMPO, the company’s quarterly study of digital music consumer activities, shows almost one-fifth of the US population over 12 has downloaded music in the last 30 days. Of that number only 21% feel that free downloading hurts artists. Only 9% feel that downloadling a file is wrong.
[via Slashdot]
Comments
I’m not terribly surprised. I get the impression that I’m a little strange - I use mp3s to try out music, and actually buy it if I like it.
I’m not out for a freebie - I’m just tired of spending $15-$18 to gamble on each and every new artist that I hear of. I’ll gladly pay the money to buy albums when I know that I’ll be happy of the quality of what I’m getting. My group of local friends use mp3s to introduce each other to new albums/artists, but it most definitely has not stopped our purchases. Not even remotely (says she who needs to build a bigger CD rack to hold all the CDs she and her spouse have acquired).
I’ve gone back and forth - ad nauseum - over whether what I do is morally right or not. It bothers me, yes, but I think about how, even in very expensive department stores, I am allowed to try on very expensive (more than the cost of a CD!) pieces of clothing before purchasing them, in order to make sure they fit my needs.
If the clothes don’t suit, don’t make me happy, or just don’t work for me, I can leave the changing room, hang up the clothes, and leave the store not feeling like a thief.
In comparison, the last store in Huntsville that allows me to listen to a CD before buying stopped that policy over a year ago. There’s no recourse for "this sucks," "I hate it," or "I just don’t want it anymore."
I don’t condone wholesale stealing of music, but at the same time, I don’t think that the music industry is sitting on anything approaching moral high ground.
There was a point in all this. When I find it, I’ll let you know.
Posted by: Amy | March 17, 2003 02:50 PM
i have been scammed by mwi, for $12.95, my cc# was given to them by VIDEO PROFESSOR, which i am having big problems with, BEWARE OF TV ADDS, PLEASE. WIL FOLLOW UP
Posted by: LUCY RUSSELL | September 22, 2003 04:36 PM
i have been scammed by mwi, for $12.95, my cc# was given to them by VIDEO PROFESSOR, which i am having big problems with, BEWARE OF TV ADDS, PLEASE. WIL FOLLOW UP
Posted by: LUCY RUSSELL | September 22, 2003 04:36 PM
i have been scammed by mwi, for $12.95, my cc# was given to them by VIDEO PROFESSOR, which i am having big problems with, BEWARE OF TV ADDS, PLEASE. WIL FOLLOW UP
Posted by: LUCY RUSSELL | September 22, 2003 04:37 PM
i have been scammed by mwi, for $12.95, my cc# was given to them by VIDEO PROFESSOR, which i am having big problems with, BEWARE OF TV ADDS, PLEASE. WIL FOLLOW UP
Posted by: LUCY RUSSELL | September 22, 2003 04:37 PM