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Guys - there's a reason the RIAA lost a class-action lawsuit for purposely making a band save songs and put them on the next CD so there would be 1-2 hits on each CD. When the RIAA starts putting out good CDs, I'll start respecting them. By downloading music, you are hardly hurting the artists at all. They get their money from shows and merchandise like skinsncanes said.
The RIAA took the wrong approach to, especially teenagers, at getting them to stop downloading music. Don't threaten them. They'll keep doing it, and you know that. I have found, and bought more CDs, because of internet file sharing than not. I do end up with big name artists on my computer from time to time, and I feel no remorse at all. Is it stealing? Damn right! Don't act like the artists freak out about music being downloaded, they don't care because they get fractions of cents off the dollar.
Also - It's not the P2P networks fault. I've gotten a lot of great, and uncopywrited material off P2P networks. The music industry is still popular, and every single one of you know that there's nothing that can replace seeing an artist live. Internet music is unreliable and often the quality isn't as good. I still buy CDs to this day, but a lot of them I put on my computer so I can just make CDs that have 17 songs I like instead of 2 I like and 12 I don't.
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