'Do you pay to download music?' Poll discussion

esuhl

Jennifer_Jane wrote: »

PS - of course I'm legal! Download legally or via purchased CD.

Errr... isn't it still illegal to rip your own CDs?

According to Wikipedia, "In the United Kingdom, making a private copy of copyrighted media without the copyright owner's consent is illegal: this includes ripping music from a CD to a computer or digital music player."

Earl_Purple

If you count certain Russian based sites as illegal then probably B because I do use them too.

Davey2009

Im legal, its Spotify or WE7 anything I really like Id buy the cd though

chaddy7604

esuhl wrote: »

Talking of which... I don't suppose anyone would know where I can get a CD of "Trample the Eagle and the Dragon and the Bear" by Alpha and Omega?

Apparently it was released in 2005, but has already gone out of production. I suppose that's the one advantage of electronically distributed media - no huge production fees to keep pressing discs :-(

There you go Amazon UK ranging from £24 to £200

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B0007LNHUM/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1260314491&sr=8-2&condition=all

rickbonar

The question should be do you pay for mp3 downloads as the law on what is and what isn't legal is not clear.

File share sites such as e donkey, emule, Imesh, Limewire, kazaa etc all provide tracks free of charge and I've have these with no problems since 1999.
All I believe perfectly legally.

aaranj

I download the majority of my music legally but when music sites refuse to let me pay for a song because "it is not yet available in your country", then I will look into "other means".

cit_k

esuhl wrote: »

Errr... isn't it still illegal to rip your own CDs?

According to Wikipedia, "In the United Kingdom, making a private copy of copyrighted media without the copyright owner's consent is illegal: this includes ripping music from a CD to a computer or digital music player."

as far as I know it is illegal yes...

17 Infringement of copyright by copying

(1) The copying of the work is an act restricted by the copyright in every description of copyright work; and references in this Part to copying and copies shall be construed as follows.
(2) Copying in relation to a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work means reproducing the work in any material form.
This includes storing the work in any medium by electronic means.

source

technically, that would probably also mean any player that buffers a cd was infringing copyright, like those CD players that buffer x number of seconds so it does not skip when you are jogging....

cit_k

rickbonar wrote: »

The question should be do you pay for mp3 downloads as the law on what is and what isn't legal is not clear.

File share sites such as e donkey, emule, Imesh, Limewire, kazaa etc all provide tracks free of charge and I've have these with no problems since 1999.
All I believe perfectly legally.

donkey, emule etc are perfectly legal bits of software, but a lot of the files downloaded using them are not legal at all. Most of it is illegal.... and can be traced back to the downloader if they are unlucky.

SPLEEN_3

There's endless free tracks on soundcloud to be downloaded.

Is some shameless self promotion i use the example here of my own music..

soundcloud.com/mr-spleen/miracle-vocal-mix

You get the idea though. Just search for whoever you're interested in on there and chances are you'll find some free tracks. Musicians/producers are doing this a lot just to promote their music.

busenbust

I just use YTube :cool: