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Originally posted by Xequecal
If you have broadband, you can fire up Kazaa and get the song you want in 2-3 minutes. If you were going to buy it, you'd have to get in your car, drive 15 minutes to Wal-Mart, find the damn thing amidst the other 100,000 CDs, hope they're not sold out, etc. Trust me, this is a lot of effort to a lot of people.
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Which is probably balanced out by those of us waddling through the internet at 56kb/s, taking 10-20 minutes to download one song. That adds up to roughly 1 1/2 hours per album, possibly more. This does assume good download rates and finding all the songs. If I had $15, I would prefer to run to a store and buy it.
Music piracy isn't always about "getting the record companies back" or "supporting the artists", I think. It's about how much money your time is worth. To me, if $15 dollars will save me 2 or 3 hours, I'll consider it. The kid with broadband that mommy and daddy bought will be more than happy to spend 20 minutes to save $15.
I still buy CDs when inspired, although I haven't been inspired to buy anything since... An acoustic compilation that a local radio station puts out every Christmas (Dammit, I gotta shell out another $15 soon) that I bought last year, IIRC.
Random thought - Does "music piracy" apply to music played on the radio?
