Do you share your Underworld mp3s?

[stimpee]

well, you must know you smart ass because I only wrote slsk, not soulseek. Now answer the poll/thread and stop asking dumb questions

[Eikman]

oh shit. i got PWNED!

[groovypanda]

i don't really get this - if you use soulseek or any other p2p server then what you're doing is stealing (and helping others steal) music - it doesn't matter if you don't share the commercial releases of your favourite band or not as all the other stuff you do share makes you just as much a participant in illegal activities

i use soulseek a hell of a lot and so yes i'm depriving some artists from receiving my hard earned cash but i still do buy a lot of music, most of which i discover through soulseek in the first place. what i don't do is upload all of my CDs to my shared folders (at least not since the awesome audiogalaxy and its 'send to group' feature died out )

[Eikman]

Originally Posted by groovypanda

i don't really get this - if you use soulseek or any other p2p server then what you're doing is stealing (and helping others steal) music - it doesn't matter if you don't share the commercial releases of your favourite band or not as all the other stuff you do share makes you just as much a participant in illegal activities

exactly. just because you don't share music by your favorite artist doesn't make the whole thing more acceptable or less illegal. it might make you feel better, but that's ridiculous after all. share everything or nothing.

[stimpee]

Thats not the question here. The legality of p2p's can be saved for another time. I'm just wondering about the Underworld, especially if you've bought the CDs. Sure, I share a lot on slsk but not UW, or other bands I feel more strongly about. Maybe it depends on how strongly you feel for them, I don't know. But, if you'd just bought the new Underworld album on CD from your local store and a guy came upto you with his laptop outside and asked if he could rip it, would you let him? I'm not taking any moral highground here, just wanting to get in your heads and make you think.

[Pancetta]

everybody just answer no to this one then we'll keep getting MP3's from the shop!

[Leon]

I only share non-album tracks, recordings of new tracks/unfinished tracks from the radio shows and that's it.

[the mongoose]

I only share needles and condoms.

[Caprice]

I own all the albums and a fair ammount of singles. I own the EE DVD. Im the type of person who does not like to share music. it is unorganized and messy.

Im the type of person who is willing to buy and would rather have the hard copy of something. When Lovely Broken Thing was released, i was dissapointed. Because i wanted a CD to buy! not some MP3!!!!!


But i will admit. I have the European Club Gig, and Bootleg Babies. And seeing how you cant buy these anywhere, because they technically dont exist, how is it stealing?

[dubman]

well, i haven't before.. because i would have slsk on a computer that would only have the mp3s i've downloaded in the last month or so.

that's not to say that *if* i had it on my ibook (which is getting more underworld fed to it every week (it's new)) i wouldnt share them.
no one downloads anything from me anyway, so i don't really care.

i don't translate respect and love for an artist by explicitly not sharing their files. as someone who used to be perpetually broke until very recently, i understand how one does not just BUY things they HEAR about.
they often just want to check it out. and if it's not thier thing, then dont let em spend $15 on it.
if they do like it and still dont buy it, well, if they like to have a music collection comprised of deteriorating ones and zeros, that's their priority, i suppose.