There are so many Youtube MP3 rippers. You pretty much type 'convert youtube to mp3' and you've got 80 hits.
April 10th, 2013 at 03:02pm
I often wonder what the statistics are on this; I think most people who download music illegally download a lot of music they're only sort of interested in but may become very passionate about – if someone were to download music from fifty bands, for example, how many (on average) would they wind up becoming a loyal (money-spending) fan of? Basically I wonder how much money illegal downloading generates for bands, though I imagine it'd be difficult/impossible to assess that. But just from personal experience, I think a lot of people do wind up spending a lot of money on bands they got into through illegal downloads. My favorite band actually encourages fans to share their music illegally because that's how they built their fanbase in the first place.
- lozzieee busted!:
- My own justification is that, because every song I download I hold dear, that when I find myself in a position where I have a regular income and 99p doesn't seem like such an enormous amount to me anymore (that's like, enough money to make a meal to me...), I'm going to purchase every single one of them.
Where did you get your information from?
- Fentoozler:
- I don't know if they're actually going to do this or if they have yet or if it's still in the works. But they're apparently adding another 5 dollars to everyone's Internet bills, specifically for downloading songs and then giving all those 5 dollars to the music guild. Which in the end, makes downloading songs legal.
I download but I have Limewire Pro. So, I guess I technically paid for it? But I don't download whole albums. I prefer having the CD.
I agree, but in the first place should they have made it cost THAT much money? (Unless someone is illegally downloading it and it's really cheap)
- becalmandcarryon:
- I don't agree with illegal downloading. Because that artist has worked months on that whole album, and then all their work goes to waste because you're illegally downloaded it. I just listen to it on Youtube or download it from iTunes. What I hate even more are those shops that burn the music onto a cd and don't even bother to make it look real. Then all the profits go to them. It's kind of sad, if you think about it.
What do you mean by "a reason" though? I'm sure everyone who illegally downloads music has a motivation to do so one way or another (such as not having enough money, not wanting to buy an entire album on i-tunes, i-tunes doesn't have the song you want to begin with, just not wanting to pay, period, ect).
- treat02:
- I don't really like it when people do it, unless someone has a reason for it.