music download programs??

[Menko]

Originally posted by meeno
law and ethics are not always correlated

I think that's the smartest thing I've heard on this forum.

I don't agree with renting music, but if I was, then I'd make copies too. Why? Because I can, it's to my benifit, and no-body is loosing any money (I'll keep paying my subscription fee because it's getting me lots of cheap music). It just means if I need to save money for awhile, or fall out with the company, or any other eventuality then I keep the music.

I still prefer hard copies, so I only download singles and odd album tracks, so 79p a song is cheaper than £10 a month for me.

[thomaspham]

definitely bittorrent, which i use bitcomet! awesome program. But downloading music and software is assuming you own that product. There is nothing wrong about owning a CD and downloading that same CD to your computer.

[ipod2genman]

Originally posted by thomaspham
definitely bittorrent, which i use bitcomet! awesome program. But downloading music and software is assuming you own that product. There is nothing wrong about owning a CD and downloading that same CD to your computer.

once again, to quote the wise words of meeno....
Originally posted by meeno
law and ethics are not always correlated

there is something "legally" wrong with it, but in yours and my minds, not ethically.

[Fitzpatrick]

Originally posted by ipod2genman
is there a website or something somewhere i can go just to read up on what is truly illegal when dealing with digital media? all this talk is getting me curious.

How awesome would a "Digital Media Copyrights for Dummies" book be?!

[meeno]

Originally posted by Fitzpatrick
How awesome would a "Digital Media Copyrights for Dummies" book be?!

the problem is that there really are no real hard precedents...it's still in development...

we probably won't know all the laws for another decade by the time we figure it out

[MeJay]

While we are on the subject on illegal music download, what constitutes the legality of such acts?

For example, if I bought a cassette tape in the 80's, and now I want to have a copy of that tape in MP3 format so I still can enjoy it with the iPod. So, I committed a crime if I download the exact same album from the web in MP3 format, is that how it works? Even I already paid for it once.

[meeno]

Originally posted by MeJay
While we are on the subject on illegal music download, what constitutes the legality of such acts?

For example, if I bought a cassette tape in the 80's, and now I want to have a copy of that tape in MP3 format so I still can enjoy it with the iPod. So, I committed a crime if I download the exact same album from the web in MP3 format, is that how it works? Even I already paid for it once.

yup, it's illegal

the law sees it as stealing...ethically it's a different story imo

[searcher]

ok when you listen to the radio what are you doing, getting free music, i can stick a tape recorder right next to my speaker and record music, is that theft, honestly , it wont be good quality but is it clasified as stealing?

[meeno]

Originally posted by searcher
ok when you listen to the radio what are you doing, getting free music, i can stick a tape recorder right next to my speaker and record music, is that theft, honestly , it wont be good quality but is it clasified as stealing?

radio is licensed to play music for promotional purposes. im pretty sure you are allowed to tape songs from the radio...

[Lyan]

why else would they have invented a RECORDER for such ideas??? it's the same thing with video and DVD...

[Baphomet]

"Stealing" is such an ugly word. I prefer to think of it as providing cost-free, third-party, off-site, archival backups of digital media files.

Thank you very much.

[searcher]

Originally posted by Baphomet
"Stealing" is such an ugly word. I prefer to think of it as providing cost-free, third-party, off-site, archival backups of digital media files.

Thank you very much.

thank you i totaly agree but i lost you at providing J/K

anyway, like i said with the radio recording, if that is for promotional porposes, mabe there should be a web site that does the same, mabe it wouldnt be a great selection but it would be better than paying, ig i could dowload a song by "Somebody Somebudy" and i liked it then i would like to buy some from them, i mean, would you buy a song by "Somebuddy Somebuddy" from the music store?

[CraigNB]

do not download bittorent, limewire, winmx or soulseek, i repeat do not. haha

[searcher]

sory for the duble post but check out riaa.com it may give some ifo on the anti-piracy laws

manly to you unrealkid, i know you asked

by the way if you want i would like to klnow how to ruip the drm out of the songs.

lcspeeddemon
back mustang convertable man!!

[a facial]

so whay are all these programs out there? why dont they shut them down???