Originally Posted by djchameleon

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.