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Originally Posted by Ben Butler
Absolutely, it's illegal downloading music for free. You can't download like this in any other industry apart from the music one. That's what I find strange about this. For niche music I can see the benefits of it but do the mainstream really need to embrace this? I doubt it personally.
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Originally Posted by Abearmauledme
I have pretty much no money, so the only way I can hear a lot of music is to download it off the internet. I think that a lot of artists (definitely not all) would prefer that I hear their stuff and pass on the word rather than not hear it at all. It's there, why not take advantage of it.
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You got to the point I wanted to say in regards to Ben's post but I will go further into that.
There are artists that use the downloading to their benefit. It's not all negative. Mostly smaller unknown artists put their material up on the interwebz so that other people can download their material for free and get the word of mouth buzzing about them. Some artists that ARE known also like to use this for things such as mixtapes or EPs.