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Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004
It's not 'DRACONIAN'.
The company's are trying to protect their products from people STEALING them.
It really burns me up when people feel they are entitled to FREE entertainment.
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anyways....
Here is the video I was talking about.
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I don't think you can call illegal downloads stealing. Because the company still owns their products when someone downloads them. Of course I'm not entitled to free entertainment, but if I would buy every song I'm listening to or every movie I'm watching I wouldn't be able to buy food anymore. I'm spending A LOT of money for music, but there is a limit to everything.
And like hayasaki said, a lot of Japanese artists wouldn't be famous in Europe or the USA or elsewhere without illegal downloads. I still remember when Dir en grey had their first concert outside of Asia in Germany. None of the people I know had ever buyed one of their CDs until this day, but it gave Dir en grey the chance to tour and to perform again in Germany and finally in other European countrys and in the USA. And of course they played a few times at music festivals like Wacken (worlds biggest metal festival).
Or look at MUCC, shortly after Dir en grey were for the first time in Germany they also played here and now are very popular among J-Rock/Visual Kei fans in Germany.
Furthermore I often go to concerts from artists I never buyed a single CD from, because I love their music. Only problem I don't have enough money to support every artist I like. But besides that, by buying CDs you basically just support the companys, not the artists (if they are not very unknown and need therefore sales).