Originally Posted by Lukeyboy:
“Ok, let me rephrase that. LEGAL digital music would be nowhere near as big, as the record companies would not have allowed music online without DRM. If you're getting music from torrents and P2P then you're killing the industry anyway. Being a musician is a job, I should know, and you're doing these people out of their wages by downloading their music illegally.
And, if you care to read my post, I say that I hate DRM just as much as everyone else, and where ever possible, I BUY my music DRM free.”
I do buy the occasional CD but it has to be something special for me to buy it, either if i'm a big fan of the artist / group or the cd comes with loads of extras like remixes & videos. Renember people have been breaking copyright since way before the internet was invented, should it be going round friends & taping records or just recording the Top 40 from the radio.
In my eyes there just isn't hardly anything worth putting my hands in my pockets for, however when I do buy music I buy from the web as rock music that is in the import sections of say HMV is just too damn expensive. If the record companies reduced their costs to those of say in the states or give value for money then I will part with the £'s.
I love playing music on the keyboard & I have no problem in purchasing sheetmusic or midi files which contain the sheet music. I also pay to see my favourite aritsts / bands in concert., I just don't think a lousy cd single is worth £4.
If I knew the artist / band was actually getting the majority of the money and not the greedy BPI / RIAA then I would splashout more. Artists like Bowie & Prince haven gotten my respect as they haven't been a 1 hit wonder & have said they no longer care about sales as they want to give something back, Prince proved that recently when he gave his new album free with the paper. Radiohead also let the fans name their own price for the album.
It is Artists / Groups like these that get my cash as they are in it for the fans and not out to make a quick few quid like some of the manufactured crap that is out nowadays.
And on a final note p2p isn't killing the industry, a recent report in Canada showed evidence of that it is actually helping sales in some cases.