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Originally Posted by stretch37
well i'm gonna have to disagree 
I didn't know who Meat Loaf was until I randomly saw the video for CHSIB on a random website and happened to play it. I proceeded to pirate Meat Loaf's discography and become obessed with him.
since then I've spent REAL money on 5 concerts, and each new CD and DVD that has been released.
Therefore Pirating MADE MEAT LOAF MONEY. |
You couldn't have bought the albums rather than download them?
Or, if you really really wanted to download something, you couldn't download
a album or compilation to give you an idea of if his music was for you or not?
Saying that pirating has made money for Meat from you is like (to use the plumber metaphor again) getting a guy to do an entire house and then paying him just for the sink.
I know that some people download an album, like it, and so become interested in the artist and buy future releases legit, but they are in the minority. Most will continue to download future works illegally, very few will buy the new releases legit, none of them ever replace their illegal copies for official CDs that put money in the artists pocket.
IN this day and age where downloading is so rife, it's almost expected that people will illegally download an album by an artist to decide if it's any good but that's a big difference from stealing every album they've ever made.
No offence, but IMHO, downloading an artists album is bad enough, but downloading their entire lifes work for free is taking the piss.
But in the interests of honest debate on the subject (although we might be better starting a new thread for this
) can you tell me.............
Have you downloaded the complete works of any other artist apart from Meat?
Have you gone on to buy any of their new albums?
Do you ever plan on getting rid of the illegally downloaded Meat Loaf albums and buying originals?
If you dowload an album, decide you don't like it and never listen to it again, do you consider that album stolen?