Why You Should Buy Music

I think there are plenty of free and legal resources for music now that even the broke DJs have no excuse to pirate.

My only debate I have on media rights are when I am told what I can or can’t do with it. If I decide to re-edit a tune for myself and use it…I should not be sued UNLESS I’m giving it away or selling it. When I say “re-edit”, I mean when the tune hasn’t changed much, but I might have rearranged it to lengthen a break or shorten the tune.

In terms of movies, I get mad when it’s suddenly “illegal” to take a DVD I bought legally and rip/convert it for my own personal use on a mobile device. It’s gouging customers to tell them if they want to play a movie they legally bought on DVD on a mobile device, that they have to shell out more money for the digital file. It’s the same when I decide to change the ID3 tags or file name to suit my needs on a music file.

I figure as long as I’m not giving it out to everyone, I should be able to do whatever I want with what I legally paid for.

Pick their favorite artist and ask them how they would feel if he/she came on Facebook and publicly quit…stating the vast amount of piracy and lost money led them to give up on music.

Easiest way to put it. They can rationalize to death on how much more money they make in touring and such, but just like that they could decide to quit altogether, or stop producing and just run services to make money off other producers where those guys lose on piracy, but not him.

D-Jam, post: 15764, member: 3 wrote:
I figure as long as I’m not giving it out to everyone, I should be able to do whatever I want with what I legally paid for.

And here is the problem, which I see in today’s world.
Publishers and governments do not see the customer in possession of what he paid for, but merely “leasing” it.
Meaning, you buy the movie, but you don’t own a copy of the movie but the license to view it.
With this understanding comes the (in those institutions way of thought) that altering it, remixing, shortening or peeing on the booklet changes the product itself and is to be pursued by law.

What really pisses me off is the fact that everybody on the planet is (thanks to ACTA and others) under general suspicion and state/police institutions are allowed to sniff my computer and everybody else’s just to have a look whether you are doing bad things or not.
I mean WTF? If I sneak into your bedroom and watch you 6ang your wife, just to make sure you are treating her according to the law, I clearly am a criminal. But THEY are allowed to? Sorry, this is a major break of privacy, and it happens now, and all we can do is sit there helplessly and wait what comes next.