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Originally Posted by ThisIsMyUserName
I don't want to. How old are you anyway?
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20. It's not just for the old folks.
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Originally Posted by ThisIsMyUserName
I don't even own a CD player, besides the drive in my computer.
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That's all you need. Rip it to your computer and you have DRM free copies. Which, as I have stated before, is somewhere that I disagree with current copyright law, and find to be ethically sound.
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Originally Posted by ThisIsMyUserName
The few times I've bought an actual CD was because the music was not for sale digitally, was not on any P2P service, and there was a cheap promo CD available. I have no idea where those disks even are. I open them, burn them, toss them aside.
They will give me music, movies, games, books, the way I want them or I will take them however I can get them. If I could PayPal 5$ to some band and have them send me a clean copy of their CD in an email, I'd do that instead of 20$ for a disc I don't need, where the artist gets none of that money.
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No, they do see part of that.
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Ya know when I stopped "stealing" PC games? When Steam came out. They had what I wanted, instantly, my way.
And I've still...heard about people downloading games that the publishers refuse to put up on a digital service. The option is there, they need to adapt if they want our money.
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That makes more sense than flat out saying stealing is okay. If you're willing to pay for the content in some manner, that doesn't make stealing it right (it's still shitty), but at least the content provider can do something to secure your purchase.