Pirating Music - illegal or birth right?

Canada
December 5, 2006 8:51pm CST
Do you think Pirating Music should stay illegal or should we be allowed? I know I think Pirating Music is illegal, because you are basically stealing from people who paid good money to make the CD. If the Music Industry really wants to stop pirating music, they should make CD's cheaper. I mean, noone would pirate a 13 track CD when he could buy it at a store for $3 - $5. Right now, a similar disc costs about $12 - $15.
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lilaclady
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
6 Dec 06
As one who has a lot of friends in the entertainment business and see a lot of them having to give up the music making because they don't get paid for much of their music I think it should be illegal.
Tushardhoot1
@Tushardhoot1 (248)
• Canada
6 Dec 06
I'm not sure but I think it's illegal now. Do you think they should start enforcing the law stronger? Like $1000 fines for having pirated CDS, and they go around raiding peoples houses?
wmg2006
@wmg2006 (5381)
• United States
13 Jan 07
Well it should stay illegal I guess. but I honestly think anything on the internet should be free. If they didn't want it pirated they should have thought of a way to not allow it to be copied. They were not so smart in that. I look at it this way, it is no different from when I would take a cassestte recorder and record a song from the radio. We would do this after school for hours with our friends and make some very good casssetes that we traded among ourselves. If you were good, and we were, you couldn't tell you didn't purchase a greatest of cd. So what is the difference? We were pirating, but if they didn't want us to have it why did they play it on the radio?