what a pointless question.. is music piracy stealing?
first of all I want to tell my side; I download for free and I don't get the point of copyright regulations. how can governments enact a law about so called stealing that they don't have? but that is another bussiness.
the mistaken point of copyright is that piracy is not stealing, it is basically copying. if you steal something it disappear for everyone else. if you can you see cocaine by eric clapton somewhere else, that means I didn't steal it. a singer records a song and brand it, takes copyrights, the album takes place on shelves, some guy buys it, goes home, makes a copy and puts it on the internet. government cannot accuse me of downloading a song, I took it from a generous friend who doesn't care about money, who cares only about the spread of art. government cannot accuse that guy of stealing, because he paid for it and the cd is his property and he can do whatever he wants with it. singer can oppose and say "this is my property". ok! that's right, that is your production then keep it yourself. we advertise for him/her, he/she should appreciate.
in addition to that, when I download, I download only one song. there are about 13 songs in an album and I don't want to pay 20-30 TL for only one song that I want to listen to and 12 songs that I don't care about. there are also single albums which are 10-15 TL and I don't want to talk about them.
another option is download songs for little costs. this is the most logical proposal of copyright holders and I made a simple calculation, I have about 20.000 songs in the several files, and I downloaded them all. cost of each song is about 0.15$. that means I stole about 4500 TL for now, and I keep stealing. on the other hand I don't have that much money and if you offer that money (maybe a little bit more) I can quit listening music, honestly..
I hope noone sneaks me and I hope someday a kind of piratpartiet gets elected in this country.. until that day I will keep "stealing" from rich men who don't need my little amounts of money..
3 comments:
Well, I guess you don't need to worry about anybody reporting you to the police since pretty much everyone seems to be a pirate of higher or lower rank or status - it looks like you could easily be the captain of the "Black Pearl" though...
You seem to be looking at it in a sort of "Robin Hood" approach where Robin is more innocent than the original one since those who share the music do so willingly...and Robin is just the middle man (internet) mediating between donator and receiver... it's an act of generosity... insteresting perspective:-)
...I'm a bit confused about why you would wanna stop listening to music if I or sb else paid you the necessary amount though??? could you clarify that a bit?
that was a little sarcasm.. musicians say that give us that money so we can keep producing.. i think art is not a job and if they think so, if they think there is a relation between money and music so give me that money and i promise that i won't listen to their music again..
I see...I too wish that art that gets produced - be it music or other kinds of art - would be created with more nobler reasons than just making money, but I guess the reality is otherwise... I assume that when our artists are still in their "infantile" stages they might work with more of an amateur spirit, just going with the inspirations that they get, or create a piece just because they get excited about sth, want to get people to react to a situation or just to express themselves... but as they get more "established" in the field I fear they might be losing that spirit a bit:-( On the other hand I guess we gotta consider that they probably don't want to depend on others, financially, and it might be rather difficult to run two things at the same time - a job that brings you the income you need and your art that you engage in for the intrinsic satisfaction?
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