So how many $ have you stolen from downloading...

I just download music to test if it's worth buying the CD or not...i probably have a couple hundred songs...but i have most of them on CD too (and not burned cd's ).

 

if you're going to go to the trouble of thinking about it. . .

you probably have WAY more than that in "stolen" music.

unless your 3000 songs would all have come from the same 240 cds [figuring a 12-13 song per cd average], then your $4500 figure is way low.

a lot of those songs you downloaded are probably the only song you wanted from that disc, but you'd still have had to pay $15 or so for each of those cds.

so, basically, you have somewhere between approx. $3600 minimum [figuring $15 per cd] and approx. $45,000 maximum in "stolen" music.

congrats, felon.

 

It's only stealing if you get caught.

 

Ideas are not property! Dump that tea in the harbour.

 

On the flipside, how many CDs have you bought that only had one good song on them? You could have bought the single and saved $10 or so. Now who is getting ripped off here?

 

You can steal money from p2p software? Oh man, why wasn't I informed?

 

LOL Azadre. I have probably "stolen" a couple thousand bucks worth of programs and cds.

 

I had heard that there was a class action lawsuit against some music companies for keeping the price of CD's elevated. I can't recall the details, but it involves some music companies giving perks to stores that kept their CD prices high. With all the bellyaching that these companies are doing about stolen music, it turns out that these guys want to have their cake and eat it too.

 

between songs and movies I've got 40 gigs.

 

Since when is sharing stealing?

 

Damn. I wonder how much that would add up to.

 

this thread has been reported to the proper authorities. Expect to be contacted!

 

When you take posession of something that isn't rightfully yours, such as with "shared" mp3s, videos, and software.

As for pasox2 - music itself, programs, and videos are all owned by their creators, if only as intellectual property. That doesn't give you the right to claim it as your own - in fact, that's plagarism.

 

0, zilch, nada

 

You're ripping yourself off. Dude, there are so many cd stores where you can listen to the cd, or you can even listen to clips of most songs at www.cdnow.com. There is no excuse.

 

1 Trillion dollars!! MUWAHAHAHAHA!!

*lifts righty pinky to corner of mouth*

 

I love the whole "you can listen to random 30 second snippets of songs in really crappy quality real audio or windows media to tell whether a 50 minute long CD is good or not."

 

LOL. I agree. 30 seconds tells you nothing about the song. I would rather listen to the whole song for free.