Mp3; A Hard Drive To Bargain

[r3port3r66]

What do you guys think; is it wrong to swap music files with each other from your computers?

Alot of musicians think that it is.

And get this; some music labels won't support online file-swaping engines, but they will create their own websites like PressPlay or MusicNet, where you can download music as long as you pay for a subscription.

[Piddzilla]

I can understand musicians in a way since they make a product that people get a hold of without paying for it. But at the same time I think it's good that the huge music industry gets a kick in the butt. They've been robbing us of our money for too damn long with their outrageous CD-prices.

But the thing you mentioned, these sites where you can download as much as you want after having paid the subscription. That sounds fair enough to me. I don't know how high the fee is though or how big the selection of tracks you can download from is, but it might be good for some people.

Personally, I think the great thing with searching and downloading from the Net is that you can find songs that are impossible to find in your local CD store. Or if you don't know the title of a track, or if you just want to check out some singer before buying the CD, then these sites are awsome.

Actually, a lot of smaller unknown bands get a lot of free promotion this way, something that a lot of bands have allready discovered. You sometimes see files with names like: "Like Papa Roach and Linkin Park? Check THIS out!". The bands that actually moan the loudest about this phenomenon are elephant sized bands like Metallica and such. I think they're doing pretty allright even after this downloading business started.