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Originally Posted by chrisso  I don't think you are grasping on to reality, although I wish what you said were true. Studio Addict hit the nail on the head.
If you give people something for free, they'll take it.
Most people don't know what goes into making a record. They see a vast choice of new music every week and can't conceive it'll ever end.
If my local dairy gave milk away, people would take it, and they probably wouldn't wonder how the dairy was surviving with no income. |
The question that is begging here is that would people start caring if dairy was no longer available to them since dairy producers could no longer run their business? I think that they would, because dairy is somewhat of a necessity. Music, however, isn't - it's far more expendable.
Anyway, you guys need to stop straw-manning me. I know full well that the music industry isn't "forcing" anyone to do anything, please try to assume the most obvious context instead of one that's easy to craft an emotional reply to.
This isn't an economic argument, it's a philosophical one.
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If I steal a bicycle, does a bicycle have no value to me?
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First of all, a bicycle is a) a far more permanent thing, b) a physical entity (as opposed to copied data), and c) possibly a necessity depending on a person's situation. That's hardly a good analogy.
But, if I were to address it anyway, if you don't monetarily support the makers of the bicycle, then perhaps around the time you need a new bicycle, you'll find yourself without one, since bicycle makers went out of business due to stolen products. If, however, you stole the bicycle and sold it (most people don't sell downloaded music, I wouldn't think, so...), or you own a car, then no, the bicycle really isn't worth anything to you at all as far as being the hard labor of a group of people, so when the time comes for you to possibly acquire a new bicycle, you won't give a rat's behind if you can't get one.