Who actually pays for music downloads?

esuhl

seagullsim wrote: »

I can now listen to almost every song ever produced...

Spotify doesn't have even a tiny fraction of all songs ever produced! Most songs don't even get released! (And I've searched for loads of tracks that aren't available.)

But Spotify is great for discovering new music (I love the "related artists" feature)... I just prefer to "own" the physical CD and listen in better quality.

jenniewb

esuhl wrote: »

Spotify doesn't have even a tiny fraction of all songs ever produced! Most songs don't even get released! (And I've searched for loads of tracks that aren't available.)

But Spotify is great for discovering new music (I love the "related artists" feature)... I just prefer to "own" the physical CD and listen in better quality.

I totally agree! I took a trial on Sportify and OK, I do have quite widespread and varied taste in music (literally everything bar the music on all the [STRIKE]!!!!!![/STRIKE]- sorry, music videos of today) they had little if any of what I had been looking for, they site just took too long to get what I wanted and I gave up. LastFM is better at recommending random stuff and introducing me to new things- all for free. Sportify had too many ads and too fewer music for a paid service.

almillar

Seagull - have a look for a wee band called 'Radiohead' on Spotify. Last time I checked they weren't there. It depends what you want - Spotify gives you so, so much choice, but you're sortof renting everything, and buying nothing. I still prefer to browse and buy CDs and rip them. Spotify, Last.fm and the web in general though, give a great try before you buy option.

seagullsim

almillar wrote: »

Seagull - have a look for a wee band called 'Radiohead' on Spotify. Last time I checked they weren't there. It depends what you want - Spotify gives you so, so much choice, but you're sortof renting everything, and buying nothing. I still prefer to browse and buy CDs and rip them. Spotify, Last.fm and the web in general though, give a great try before you buy option.

Good job too - I can't stand Radiohead. Wish the Beatles were on there, but I own all those CDs anyway....

catrobs34672

There are many online websites available which gives us the opportunity to download the free music so i can't pay ever for the download the music.

almillar

catrobs - care to name them? Probably shouldn't - they're probably illegal unless they're samples or unsigned bands. Do you not think you should pay for the recording to be made?

byjimini

Spotify is a con, I'm certainly not putting my album on there until the royalties paid are more than the 0.000000000003p per play currently on offer.

All the work of practising, the rush of playing live, the stress of making an album, and then they go and do that. Absolutely insane.

bleepandbooster

Anyone use gtunes app ? Legal or illegal ? (It's on Playstore)

Cofion
David

lilylola

I subscribe to the £10 a month Spotify where you can get most music. Haven't really looked into how much of that goes to the artist though, but I suspect it is a very small proportion - so perhaps I'm not really doing anyone any favours?

adouglasmhor

esuhl wrote: »

That quote doesn't mention anything about copyright infringement being theft - it isn't. Neither is copyright infringement murder or embezzlement or any other un-related crime.

It also says that it's illegal to copy commercial music, which is also wrong. It's only illegal if you're doing it on a commercial basis (i.e. piracy) AND you don't have permission. If you are doing it for personal use it is unlawful but not illegal (i.e. you may be sued in civil action by the copyright holder, but cannot be prosecuted in a criminal court). I have made copies of commercial music and distributed them to people, BUT I had written permission from the copyright holder to do so as part of a publicity excercise that I was helping with.

The quotation also says that you can rip CDs you own into MP3s, which again (unless the law has changed recently) is unlawful.Wrong If you have a CD and want to put those songs on your MP3 player you must buy the MP3s.wrong

It sounds like the quotation may refer to US law, but who knows...

EDIT:
I had a look at the link and it clearly relates to US law which is obviously different to UK law.

The relevant UK legislation that you might like to peruse is the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, which is available here:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/contents

Read your link and as I thought there is nothing about coping a CD into another format unless you distribute it.