Pirating is not technically stealing... But if you are obtaining something
that you enjoy a lot (whether that be a movie, videogame, or music
album) you really should feel the need to give the artists money for
their hard work and effort, so that creative individuals like them will
have confidence in pursuing a career as a musician, actor, screenwriter,
director, etc, and then they will be able to create more content that
you enjoy.
What I'm trying to say is that you can't complain about "Oh man the
movies these days are total shit", or "this years music is so fucking
brutal" if you pirate and steal shit, because artists that could have
potentially created quality content (that you would have enjoyed) didn't
have enough money, and were discouraged because they knew that the
inudstry wasn't making nearly as much money since the internet and
peer-to-peer etc, so they couldn't support them. Even if you buy a piece
or type of music that you barely enjoy (let's say a radiohead fan buys a
lady gaga CD [unlikely, but whatever] for all intensive purposes) a
record label/media corporation is profiting, thus allowing them to take
risks and branch out by signing, funding, and promoting newer artists
from smaller and different genres. This means that really good alt-rock
bands like radiohead will have better access to distribution, recording,
and promotion, so that people like you (people that enjoy radiohead in
this case) can have more of the good stuff.
Get what I'm saying? You have to buy into the system if you want more of
the music/video's/shit that you enjoy. That's in an ideal world
though...
The problem is that nobody really thinks like that anymore, because our
generation doesn't have enough money to buy music in the first place!
Imagine if you bought all of the music in your Itunes library... So an
album costs an average of $12.19, the average album has 12.26 songs per
album, so that's about 99 cents per song. I have 4307 songs in my iTunes
library (nearly all of which I stole), that should have cost me $4263.93 dollars... That's over three
times the money the average current generation 18 year old would have
made in his entire lifetime.
I mean, I make my own little moral excuses sometimes too. For example,
I'm not going to buy a nirvana CD in stores, because Kurt Cobain (the
creative master of the band) is dead, and the other members already have
enough money. It's a judgement thing. If it's an independent artist
that is lesser known, and deserves the money, I will most definitely buy
it, even if I discovered and listened to their music using illegal
methods. Even with "pay what you want" style things, I will still give
them $20 if I have it in my paypal.
So yea, the same goes for TV shows, movies, streaming websites, etc.
A quick word on blocking ads
It looks like you are using an ad blocker. That's okay. Who doesn't? But without advertising revenue, we can't keep making this site awesome. Click the link below for instructions on disabling adblock.
