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Will you "share" new DRM-free iTunes purchases

Will you 'share' new DRM-free iTunes purchases?

  • Yes, just ask then let me see what you have

    Votes: 23 18.3%

  • Maybe a song or two

    Votes: 42 33.3%

  • No, buy your own copy

    Votes: 61 48.4%
  • Total voters
    126
I'd share it with family or friends if they asked. The only person I really share music with anyways is my brother in law.

Wouldn't share it over p2p.
 
donmei said:
I have a big problem with the way the RIAA has couched the entire sharing/piracy issue.

First, I will hapily post to my FTP site or email a song to a specific person if I think they'd enjoy it. Analogous to how I used to make a tape copy of an album for a friend back in the analogue days.

I don't however participate in p2p systems. Not because of some feeling of duty, but because they are unreliable and a source of problems, viruses, trojans, etc.

The RIAA are a bunch of filthy whoreing (whoring?) A@#$#les. They complain about revenues and how sharing hurts artists, but yet, the Artists see very little money from record sales.

I will use David Matthews stuff as an example. I've purchased DMB Tshirts for my nephew at several of the dozen or so shows I've seen of his. I've made sure I put money in his pocket, because I've got a TON of his music, little of which I've ever paid for. Any opportunity to go around the record labels should be taken, especially when it can be done in a way that can put money in the pocket of the artist.

When CD's were launched in the 80s, records cost $7. New release CD's cost $14. We were told athat as production ramped up the cost of CDs would decrease to the price of records. It never happened. So screw them.

Sorry, but I'm very passionate about this. Ironically, I'm very happy to fork over money for a DVD. Think about it. $14 for a first run flick at Wally world is a heck of a lot of value.

With that said, I'm really talking about my convictions and my philosophy, not my actions. At 39 yrs old, its just easier to buy something rather than finagle a way to get it for free. But that doesnt' change that I cringe whenever I buy a CD.

And NO I will never buy DRM'd music online. All of my digital music is ripped my CDs or friends CDs.

Don

p.s. by the way, did you ever notice that if your computer goes belly up, you can only restore songs from your ipod to your pc if they are DRM'd songs. Crazy
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Artists would be the first to tell you that they make about $1-2 per cd, split amongst a band of 4, that is 50 cents. So it's really about the principle rather than the amount of $ that they're "missing." The record comanies are getting practically all of it, and any attempts to argue that are deluded (with the exception of possibly superstar mega artists).

So if you just want to put the most $ in the artists pockets, you're better off going to concerts and buying merchandise.

Whether it's ok to share music with your friends and who qualifies as a "friend" is the debate. Is any person on p2p a "friend?" Only if every human being is your friend. And seriously, some people really feel this way. In the old days, making mix tapes and mix cd's was legal or at the very least socially and morally acceptable for most. With mp3's, the question with sharing them is whether it's more akin to making a bunch of mix tapes for friends or if it's more like opening up a small shop in NYC and giving these tapes out of a suitcase, because the ease of distribution is just too convenient.

Does the ease of mass distribution trump the precedent that it's OK and legal to make a mix tape/ mix cd? I think that in the end it will end up being ok to freely distribute music as much as you want, and the music industry will have to make money on service-based things, like a $5/a month unlimited plan that is low enough such that most people would pay for the convenience (like netflix). The songs themselves may just be trojan horses to get you in the door for other things. What things I don't know, but I think that's where we're headed. It is awfully hard to compete with "free." The threat of legal action and bad karma for most people aren't a strong enough deterrent.
 
Track or 2 with a friend. I'd never put 'em on limewire though. I burn albums to CD for my friends anyway, no different from tape copying back in the day really.
 
DRM never stopped me from sharing with my family (Dad, brother) and 95% is anyway DRM free music from CDs. I never shared with strangers. Therefore I voted no.
 
No I do't really share music, though without DMR if I'm listening to somthing cool and talking to a friend on ichat I might be like here check this out and send a (one) song.....but people will probably delete it after they hear it once anyway.....I have a really crappy taste in music :D (hardcore, screaming, etc.) lol:p
 
People will always share music, I just hope people don't take advantage of legal DRM-Free music as it'll just be locked up again :(
 
I would only be sharing with friends and family. Which is nothing I couldn't do before with the DRM'ed files. I would just burn them to a CD. How else are you supposed to experience new music and new artists???
 
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