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Slick:
Check out this article, it's about Canadian artists banding together to support music sharing. Basically, Broken Social Scene, Barenaked Ladies, Blue Rodeo, and others all got together and said no to proposed legeslation that would make Canada's laws closer to that of the states in regards to internet file sharing; presently it's legal to share and download to your hearts content hear in the great white north, as long as you don't pay anything for it, and these artists think it's a good thing, as do I.
I think the internet is in a large part responsible for our indie-rock-renaissance we've got going right now, and I like to think we all go and see these guys play live and buy CD's from the shows, where they're cheaper and go directly to the artist.
The only ones loosing out are the big labels, because the music scene is thriving and the musicians still seem to be eating. Maybe we don't actually need them that much.

Vive le renaissance, let's keep pirating and keep music alive in our generation, in our style.

Bunnyman:
I wouldn't be into most of the artists I bought CDs from if I didn't pirate them first.

Extrapolate.

That's all I have to say.

jcknbl:
I agree its definitely good for bands (at least relatively unknown ones) to make their music available for free download. Its certainly stupid to sue fans and the RIAA is just fucking nuts. I also find the arguments about keeping the poor culturally disenfranchised fairly convincing. Further, criminalizing music sharing is a shitty solution to a problem the requires creativity and innovation (that is, finding ways to make money off music other than selling music).

None of that though, justifies piracy. Its like tobacco, prohibiting possession would obviously be a terrible idea but that doesn't make smoking any better for you.

Oli:
Downloading bands music is OK. Provided you don't sell it on.

However if you really like a band I think buying a few of their CDs (at shows or whatever) is only fair. It pays the band (aswell as merch and ticket sales).

At the end of the day though the music is the artists property and they have the right to let you get it free or not. That's only fair.

Slick:
The music is their property, true, and if they all got together in support of suing music fans I think I'd download less, and problably buy less as well.
Mass scale downloading is not something I condone; my friends with extra hard drives full of pirate music are doing it wrong, as I reckon. Downloading is great for elusive or elsewise unavailable tracks (i.e. Grow Up and Blow Away: entire album), and for sampling, but without support these people can't eat.

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