Re: Downloading Music. Is it stealing?
Whether it is stealing or a breach of copyright is a moot point. If you download the music that is on a CD illegally you are not buying the CD and thus the seller is not making a sale. If you walk into a shop and pinch the CD the seller is still not making a sale. It’s a technicality but the end result is the same. The seller loses a sale! So it is a breach of copyright and also stealing.
People would have a different outlook if they were the musician whose work is being pirated and few justified royalties coming in or the shop owner who isn’t selling as many CD’s as expected.
I do not download music primarily because modern pop music is a load of old tosh. But then it would be to an old fogey like myself. My musical tastes didn’t progress past about 1985.
Like most other people I have recorded from the radio and even from a friend’s record so I too am a thief in that respect. But the resultant tapes never lasted very long.
If my kind of music were available as an illegal download, would I download it? The point is academic because as far as I know it isn’t but then CD’s of older music only cost around a fiver and you get the artwork and the write up about the artists, which you do not get with a download. So I would probably not download.
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