Yeah, but what about educational uses, etc? I'm doing a report on System of a Down's toxicity as a culture analysis for a final project. I got all the lyrics off of one site so I could do the project... How does this hurt the songwriter? This is very different from music downloading. If I download the music, I don't have to buy the CD. But lyrics? Lyrics to music are really nothing without the music. While some lyrics may be very good, it's simply not the complete product and nobody is going to download lyrics like crazy hurting the artist rather than buying their music.
Yeah, I totally agree. Since I started downloading music, my CD collection has roughly doubled - and geuss what, their legal CD's I bought off of half.com/amazon/etc. By downloading I have been exposed to music that I would have otehrwise been ignorant of. And heck, even if I do have around 20 or so single songs I don't own in my MP3 collection, those are just the leftovers from something like 20 albums worth that I sampled and bought. But, of course, none of this makes sense to the RIAA, so....
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Yeah, but what about educational uses, etc? I'm doing a report on System of a Down's toxicity as a culture analysis for a final project. I got all the lyrics off of one site so I could do the project... How does this hurt the songwriter? This is very different from music downloading. If I download the music, I don't have to buy the CD. But lyrics? Lyrics to music are really nothing without the music. While some lyrics may be very good, it's simply not the complete product and nobody is going to download lyrics like crazy hurting the artist rather than buying their music.
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Yeah, I totally agree. Since I started downloading music, my CD collection has roughly doubled - and geuss what, their legal CD's I bought off of half.com/amazon/etc. By downloading I have been exposed to music that I would have otehrwise been ignorant of. And heck, even if I do have around 20 or so single songs I don't own in my MP3 collection, those are just the leftovers from something like 20 albums worth that I sampled and bought. But, of course, none of this makes sense to the RIAA, so....