9?@?Headless-Pixie";p="23947"]I think downloading music is a crime but all i'm really doing is robbing a few $ from the already extremely rich.[/quote]
Obviously if it were just one person doing it, or just one instance, it wouldn't be a big issue. As far as robbing from the rich, you're talking about the labels, but what about the artists themselves? Only a small percentage of artists on the major labels are actually wealthy. I've been downloaded by the thousands, and believe me I'm not wealthy.
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Anyway didn't a record company recently try to sue about 60 people who were the top downloaded in the U.S. for around $300,000 each (the amount all music added up to i think).
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They will never recover that kind of money even if they win every case. The most the RIAA (which represents all the major labels, so the money would be split) will ever see is a couple thousand from each person. Even if they did get $300,000 from 60 people, that's only $18 million - far less than the industry has lost in sales over the last couple of years from downloading. And the artists will never see a penny of that.