In the last few years, there has been an outrageous amount of complaints and lawsuits coming from record companies to innocent people. All this trouble because they downloaded a few songs. These labels have been suing anyone they could find, in new York a 12 year old girl was sued. She downloaded a few songs using Limewire pro, she thought it was okay because her mom paid a service charge for the programme. The girl is being sued for 150 000$ per song, the record companies settled at 3 500$. It is really getting out of hand. They need to calm down and go after the people who are actually doing something wrong.
These record companies are becoming greedier and greedier each and everyday. They claim that the artists are loosing so much money. But the reality of that matter is that artists only receive 6% of the CDs value and the rest goes to the label. 6% of a CD is about 80¢ a CD. And all the rest is in the pockets of the greedy record executives. This is completely unfair, the artists deserve more. So by downloading music instead of paying for it, then spending that money on a shirt or concert, you take the money from the labels and give it to the artists.
You can’t blame people for downloading pirated music. It’s so easy and for people like me it’s been around since I could remember. Since I was 11-12 I’ve been downloading music, without remorse. I always thought it was okay, I couldn’t go out and spend 15$ on a CD when I made an allowance of 10$ a week! So downloading was my only option.
Downloading music also has advantages for artist. For example you are a new band and you have not yet gotten much exposure. Putting your CD in a store is not going to help you out at all, no one will buy it. But say you put it online let people listen to a few songs for free, they will potentially buy the rest of the CD or even start going to your gigs which is where artist make most of there money.
The record companies are going after the wrong people. There are some people who burn CDs and sell them, that’s who they should go after. Not 12 year old girls downloading a few songs.
These record companies are becoming greedier and greedier each and everyday. They claim that the artists are loosing so much money. But the reality of that matter is that artists only receive 6% of the CDs value and the rest goes to the label. 6% of a CD is about 80¢ a CD. And all the rest is in the pockets of the greedy record executives. This is completely unfair, the artists deserve more. So by downloading music instead of paying for it, then spending that money on a shirt or concert, you take the money from the labels and give it to the artists.
You can’t blame people for downloading pirated music. It’s so easy and for people like me it’s been around since I could remember. Since I was 11-12 I’ve been downloading music, without remorse. I always thought it was okay, I couldn’t go out and spend 15$ on a CD when I made an allowance of 10$ a week! So downloading was my only option.
Downloading music also has advantages for artist. For example you are a new band and you have not yet gotten much exposure. Putting your CD in a store is not going to help you out at all, no one will buy it. But say you put it online let people listen to a few songs for free, they will potentially buy the rest of the CD or even start going to your gigs which is where artist make most of there money.
The record companies are going after the wrong people. There are some people who burn CDs and sell them, that’s who they should go after. Not 12 year old girls downloading a few songs.
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