so if you guys were to say get a new haircut......would you steal it first to see if you like it? Want to try a new food? Steal it. If you like it then buy more. Stealing this music hurts the artist, so you are obviously not fans.
Sorry. Your logic is flawed.
For starters "theft" involves quantifiable deprivation. Someone takes it, and the other person doesn't have it anymore. Copying is not theft, because it involves no quantifiable deprivation. And *no*, the money they may have gotten had a pirate paid for a CD does not constitute quantifiable deprivation. Now, that's not to say that it is in any way morally correct, just that it's not theft. But the distinction is important, and the content business knows that, which is why they expend so much effort trying to conflate the two, and it's a load of BS. It's been a long campaign to twist our understanding of the concept of 'intellectual property' to the point that we consider it to be the same as physical property, which it most assuredly is not.
Secondly, stealing the music does not hurt the artist. The number of people that copy the music, does not equal loss of sales. In fact the number of pirates that may have bought that content is very low and in the noise. Frankly, most people don't pirate. and the ones that do most often turn into the loudest proponent of that content, selling more albums for the band via word of mouth advertising.
Finally, most artist see very little of an actual CD sale. Want to support a band? Steal their albums and go to their concerts and buy their shirts. Go ahead and talk to most metal artist about this topic... My guess is most artist understand the benefits of Piracy. Sure some dinosaurs havent embraced the future, but most have.
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finally got the dl and will be listening today...
My hopes arent high though.... There is something about this band that brings the suck, except I dont know what that is. Musically they are awesome, and they arent gimmicky (at least not too much).... I think it might just be the mall rats that I see wearing their gear every now and then. I hate those kids.
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but this album is way better then bloddrunk and are you dead yet.
any given day I might switch 1 with 2, or 3 with 4, or 5 with 6. but almost always 1,2>3,4>5,6.
I havent dl the new one yet. Ill get around to it.
Was Are you dead yet the first album of theirs you listened too or got into? that would explain that
I like it. First song I heard by bodom was Are You Dead Yet? when I was a freshman I think
My hopes arent high though.... There is something about this band that brings the suck, except I dont know what that is. Musically they are awesome, and they arent gimmicky (at least not too much).... I think it might just be the mall rats that I see wearing their gear every now and then. I hate those kids.
Will be listening today.