Quote Originally Posted by iloveboost
I understand. But say your income was based on sales, would you feel the same way?

It's not only the artist that gets money taken from them. There are people that package the CDs, that print the material, that design the material, ship the material, that advertise and market the material and so on.

If an artist is completely fine with sharing their music for free, more power to them. It's not always only the artist that's been stolen from.
Again you can spin this... all of these same people will lose jobs due to the internet... why would I pay 15$ for a cd when I could download it cheaper on amazon. There is no packaging, print work needed at that time. The only people making a fuss about this are record executives and the saddest thing about it is records sales have not seen losses since the internet/napster/bittorrent/etc. I'm sorry but this is something minimal to complain about.

How about system leeches... welfare, food stamps, school vouchers, healthcare, etc.? You want to see impact of theft just look around you; media sales vs. internet is minimal.