Music is something that most everyone enjoys, some people don't...and I pity you. But something that I have noticed is that people arent buying any CD's anymore, I mean sure there are a few CD stores around and there is the almighty JB HI FI, but since the internet had it's big boom no-one is buying CD's and i find it sad, because I personally liked to support artists for their work, if I thought there work was good I would buy their CD, that's how it went. I also like having something to show for what I own, records were cool in there time and my dad's record collection was absolutly awesome. Tapes were also cool, I remeber having quite a few tapes, also recording stuff off the radio was fun too, making your own mix tapes. Does anyone listen to the radio anymore...didn't think so. When was the last time you sat down and read a BOOK!! (omg did he say book? WTF is a book, I think it's one of those things I use to beat people and fill my stove with) Getting a little off topic...^_^
Nowadays people just download music, movies and books for free (I cannot judge as I've done this too) but think about it, if you're not paying for something that someone else has created...isn't that called stealing? Isn't stealing a crime? I don't know why society has deemed stealing as a comendable act but I for one have decided that from this day foward, I will not download music, movies, or I don't know, whatever else you can download for free, I dont have something to show for what I'm recieving then I shouldn't have it, and neither should anyone else.
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Not an expert or anything of the like, but I believe stealing by downloading from the internet has become socially acceptable because people tend to think they are 100% anonymous online.
ReplyDeleteAlthough downloaders are completely at fault and responsible for their own actions, perhaps some of the blame also lies with the uploaders. There wouldn't be anything worthwhile stealing if it weren't uploaded in the first place.
I don't know if stealing is the right word for it. you aren't actually taking a song, you're copying it. There aren't many precedents for this kind of "theft" other than in piracy.
ReplyDeleteMore often than not, people who download the music, and never have any future intention of buying a CD/legal download would simply go without if they couldn't download it for free.
Then you have record companies complaining about diving sales. The problem is not piracy, it's the fact that there is far less good music. The really good bands are doing just fine, because people want the top-quality files, and they want to support good artists. Also, artists like Rihanna, who resample old songs without paying royalties, and noone seems to notice. Is it okay to "steal" their music, seeing as they "stole" to create it?
I agree with both the previous posts. I once thought about that, if you sample a song without royalties isnt that stealing too. especially if it becomes famous..
ReplyDeleteThere is a ghost from the past still on the airwaves..a reminder to all of what it used to be like back in a day when buying music was actually an expensive affair, but seeing a international act cost half the price of their record or CD, so whats changed is the music is $1 a song and seeing the act is $100.
ReplyDeleteBelow about Rage..
Rage is an all night music video program broadcast on ABC TV on Friday and Saturday nights. rage first screened in April 1987.
On Friday nights rage plays new release videos through until 6am. From 6-8am rage plays a package of hits and new releases. From 8-9am rage plays a preview of the upcoming night’s guest programmer of special.
The show has no presenters, except on Saturday nights when rage has musicians as guest programmers. They host the show and talk about, and screen, their favourite music videos. rage’s guest programmers have included Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jared Leto from 30 Seconds To Mars, Marilyn Manson, Courtney Love, Deborah Harry, Elvis Costello, Radiohead, Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails, Chris Cornell from Soundgarden & Audioslave, Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine & Audioslave, Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M., Silverchair, Eskimo Joe, Powderfinger, Wolfmother, The Living End, You Am I, The Cruel Sea, Spiderbait, Faith No More, Metallica, Sepultura, Trivium, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At The Disco, Fall Out Boy, Queens Of The Stone Age, Sonic Youth, The Breeders, Pavement, Weezer, Beck, Wilco, Mercury Rev, Frank Black, Jack Black, Green Day, Beastie Boys, Hilltop Hoods, Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Ice-T, Andre 3000 from Outkast, The Flaming Lips, Devo, Butthole Surfers, Tool, Primus, Wilco, The Strokes, Interpol, Bloc Party, New Order, Supergrass, Kasabian, Ash, Gomez, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, The Stranglers, Malcolm McLaren, Garbage, Kylie Minogue, Neneh Cherry, Lily Allen, Cyndi Lauper, Tori Amos, Scissor Sisters, Porno For Pyros, Jane’s Addiction, Dandy Warhols, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Avalanches, Massive Attack and The Prodigy.
On some Saturday night rage has Specials. The specials may feature one particular band or artist (such as Beastie Boys, Madonna, Nirvana & Pearl Jam, The Chemical Brothers) or be genre specials (Australian bands & artists, U.K bands & artists, Hip Hop, Electronic, Dance music, female bands, artists & lead singers) or concept specials (cover songs, novelty songs, rage in love, rage pigs out, weird science).
‘20 Years of rage’ hit ABC TV during April 2007 with ‘rage’ screening a series of specials featuring the standout videos from its 20 years on air.
rage has released CDs and DVDs including ‘The Songs Most Chosen By rage Guest Programmers’, ‘The Chosen Ones’ and ‘20 Years of rage’.