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Insider info: One of the Largest online music retailers has just laid off >40 employees.

This impacts you how? Your releases now take longer to get posted which means people are MORE inclined to hit the Torrents and steal your music.

Not good.

Ok. Back off topic everyone.

T-

Which site?

People want to spend money on different things then music, it's not their first priority. If the can get it for free they will.
In this era of the economic crisis, people will download more and more.


Some radical idea to solve this would be offering data packs.
ISP together with online music retailers offering mp3 downloads, and the rest of the bandwidth capped such as newsgroups torrents and p2p.
But think that is not gonna happen.

Change is coming whether we like it or not.

Can we blame the change on Obama?

contakt321 wrote:Which site?

IT'S A SECRET

first the forum says to not buy music, it should be free.

now it's saying to buy music, but it's to support the leaches who make money from selling other peoples' music, not the artist.

the last time I downloaded a song it was legit and it gave me a virus.

interwebs is complicated.

I'm going to pop both my ear drums and be done with it, maybe take up photography.

Tone Deft wrote:first the forum says to not buy music, it should be free.

now it's saying to buy music, but it's to support the leaches who make money from selling other peoples' music, not the artist.

the last time I downloaded a song it was legit and it gave me a virus.

interwebs is complicated.

I'm going to pop both my ear drums and be done with it, maybe take up photography.

Does this mean you wont be posting any more?

contakt321 wrote:

Tone Deft wrote:first the forum says to not buy music, it should be free.

now it's saying to buy music, but it's to support the leaches who make money from selling other peoples' music, not the artist.

the last time I downloaded a song it was legit and it gave me a virus.

interwebs is complicated.

I'm going to pop both my ear drums and be done with it, maybe take up photography.

Does this mean you wont be posting any more?

what does this forum have to do with music?

I would buy music if I had any disposable income, instead of being massively in debt to the point of teetering on foreclosure.

But I would still never steal. There is lots of great music for free and otherwise, what I can't afford will have to wait.

We had one or two forum members saying all music should be free, but it's a personal choice thing for me. I would not justify illegal downloads, but for those who partake, they do their thing and should be prepared for the consequences if caught. If they think it's worth the risk, they'll do it anyway.

Tone Deft wrote:first the forum says to not buy music, it should be free.

now it's saying to buy music, but it's to support the leaches who make money from selling other peoples' music, not the artist.

the last time I downloaded a song it was legit and it gave me a virus.

interwebs is complicated.

I'm going to pop both my ear drums and be done with it, maybe take up photography.

Complicated situation indeed; I took up photography a few years ago.

everyone who thinks music should be free should pay my mortgage.
stupid hippies....

All of my relatives who asked me what I wanted for X-Mas got an email from me with a link to what album I wanted. All I asked for this year was physical media, new vinyl records.

Hidden Driveways wrote: All I asked for this year was physical media, new vinyl records.

Vinyl rocks!, i don't buy mp3

i think there's anyway loads of DAW's out there so everybody should MAKE the music they consume and that's it.

I buy from charity shops - vinyl - and generally iTunes store for new stuff if I really, really want it. The rest comes from you guys, and loads of free netlables.