| To the OP -
It can be about the art. However, without any income, who is going to buy the gear? Who is going to develop the software/gear/etc? How are the people spending their time making the music going to live/eat? Its nice to think of a world where we sit in our project studios making music simply for the purpose of sharing our art with the world, but unless we all win the lottery, that's just not going to happen.
Were Beethoven and Mozart great artists? Of course.
Did they compose a lot of very artful pieces for the sole purpose of getting a paycheck? Of course.
Just because its easy to get music for free, or because it doesn't "feel like stealing" doesn't make it right or beneficial for the industry. If you don't have the money to buy product X, then you don't get it until you have the money. Its no different that this product can be cloned. With that logic, it should be OK to steal MatLab and WinMLS licenses just because technically you are "copying" and not removing ownership. |