Illegal downloading

[gonzo76]

I would support a genuine artist if it justified.
The thing is these days everyone from Kanye West to last years X factor runner up is labeled "An Artist", and not a product which is closer to reality.
Ubiquitous music these days is generic garbage with no artistic merit.

I'm sorry but that argument doesn't make sense to me. If you took the time to download it, you like the music, right? If it has no artistic merit, or you think it's generic garbage, why download it?

And I think there's a bit of chicken and egg going on here too. Musicians don't get paid for making music, so they go and get "stable" jobs that pay the bills, and then we lament that all music is over produced, manufactured crap... And download it illegally...

[gonzo76]

I agree with you 100% I rarely download music, I like to own a CD, but my point is "Artists" proper piss and moan about people illegally downloading music but they don't contribute to the fight, they just call people thief's and jog on, nothing but mouth pieces

So what's the answer, how do they "contribute to the fight"? I think if it were as easy as you suggest, they'd have solved illegal downloads by now?

[Kenton]

So what's the answer, how do they "contribute to the fight"? I think if it were as easy as you suggest, they'd have solved illegal downloads by now?

Well humanity has evolved to the stage where we are going to have driverless cars in a few years, we've transplanted people's faces onto new people, sent and landed probes on Mars, my point being if a big enough group of these guys got together and donated some of their very handsome fortunes towards research into ways to tag songs or something. They did it with CD's they put something on it so that you couldn't burn them onto a computer to make a copy. Where there's a will there's a way, especially with people who have so much money

[Kenton]

I'm no expert on technology but there's plenty of people out there who I'm sure with the right financial incentive could come up with something feasible

[The Libertarian]

Talk about illegal downloading relative to our hobby/business, it was originally proposed by the psychotics (unanimously accepted by all the members on it) of the JOC on prostitution law reform in The Republic that anyone (including ODPs (ordinary decent punters, the vast vast majority of us), sex workers looking for dangerous punter warnings or for safe sex and sexual health information or even a curious teenage child), downloading an escort related site such as EI, should be legally equated with a child molester downloading scenes of children being raped and abused!
Now that was so enormously insane (AFAIK, it came from the Ruhama submission, quelle surprise!), that even our beloved Minister for everyone elses' interior, Fitzy Fitzy, would not put it in her vastly insane new bill!