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iPod Pirating Songs wrong w/ iTunes Match Service?
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So you'd rather people pirated content and consumed it, than people pirating and not consuming
Copyright is a very complicated issue. Partially because of the march of technology and partially because of the lobbying efforts of copyright holders who abuse the system.
In a perfect world John Mayer would receive payment for performing and from sales of his songs that he wrote.
The issue is that even if John Mayer records the music himself, he still might want to hire middle-men to market, distribute and/or sell his music.
John could throw it up on a website and make money that way, but there are incentives for building a centralized access point for lots of different music versus going to half a dozen artists' websites to purchase a dozen songs.
Itunes is only marginally better than the record companies. Services that act as agreggators like spotify encumber the artist less... but also offer far less in the way of revenue.
The real issue is that the music industry giants lost their oligopoly on distribution. Piracy isn't helping, but piracy is only a symptom of the real issues they are facing. Their (record labels') productivity has not kept pace.
People stopped buying CDs for $10 because CD's were not offering them anything that a digital sound file did not.
It is an interesting problem.
In a perfect world John Mayer would receive payment for performing and from sales of his songs that he wrote.
The issue is that even if John Mayer records the music himself, he still might want to hire middle-men to market, distribute and/or sell his music.
John could throw it up on a website and make money that way, but there are incentives for building a centralized access point for lots of different music versus going to half a dozen artists' websites to purchase a dozen songs.
Itunes is only marginally better than the record companies. Services that act as agreggators like spotify encumber the artist less... but also offer far less in the way of revenue.
The real issue is that the music industry giants lost their oligopoly on distribution. Piracy isn't helping, but piracy is only a symptom of the real issues they are facing. Their (record labels') productivity has not kept pace.
People stopped buying CDs for $10 because CD's were not offering them anything that a digital sound file did not.
It is an interesting problem.
So you'd rather people pirated content and consumed it, than people pirating and not consuming
Yes, a lot of people just download stuff for the sake of downloading. I know people with 100GB libraries, and they've literally got play counts on 10% of those.
It makes piracy seem much worse than it is, because actually a lot of the stuff being downloading isnt being used.
100% agree with you. People are so obsessed with trying to fill their iPods to the brim with those "10,000 songs" just to have them when they need them. The truth is that the average person won't ever go through all those songs, ever. You listen to your favorites, the latest, and that's it. Why download full albums just to get the three songs you like anyway?
I love iTunes Match. Makes my barebones home entertainment system shine! Also, it has saved a ton of space on my iPhone, and that of my wife's, which were filling to the brim with photos, etc.
The copyright holder gets paid every time a song is played. The $25 you pay to Apple, to some extent, goes to the record company/artist. Does that make torrents legal? No. Does it make them any less immoral? No.
Why are you pirating music? Is it because you can't afford to pay retail for the music? Is it because the music is not legally available where you live? This is the case for many pirates. These are not potential customers. For them to listen to the music for free is inconsequential to the copyright holder and therefore, in my opinion, totally ok. Enjoy the finer things in life fellas!
If, however, you pirate music because you'd rather spend the money on something harder to steal, to "screw the man", or because you're just too lazy to go buy a CD (or enter a credit card into a digital distribution service), then iTunes Match is not going to save you from the fires of hell.
If you have money for iTunes Match (and a computer / iOS device, and a broadband internet connection to use it), then you don't fit into the first group of pirate, and are therefore a bad person.
The copyright holder gets paid every time a song is played. The $25 you pay to Apple, to some extent, goes to the record company/artist. Does that make torrents legal? No. Does it make them any less immoral? No.
Why are you pirating music? Is it because you can't afford to pay retail for the music? Is it because the music is not legally available where you live? This is the case for many pirates. These are not potential customers. For them to listen to the music for free is inconsequential to the copyright holder and therefore, in my opinion, totally ok. Enjoy the finer things in life fellas!
If, however, you pirate music because you'd rather spend the money on something harder to steal, to "screw the man", or because you're just too lazy to go buy a CD (or enter a credit card into a digital distribution service), then iTunes Match is not going to save you from the fires of hell.
If you have money for iTunes Match (and a computer / iOS device, and a broadband internet connection to use it), then you don't fit into the first group of pirate, and are therefore a bad person.
If they're nothing alike, there's no value to lose in the first place. If you're implying that my analogy had absolutely nothing to do with the original idea, then have a happy day in your world.
Postcards? Are those like the rectangular pieces of cardboard with pictures like here on earth? Lol