It is all illegal, and though I've owned enough cassette copies of my friends' albums that I have little room to talk, I am now more conscientious.
As an author, I make $1.50 off each hardback and $1.10 off each paperback sold. Musicians are in the same boat. For every person who passes my book on to a friend, that's a sale I don't get. The less sales I get, the less money I get to raise my family on, and the less of an up-front check I get for the next book because I only sold x copies. You dig?
Yes, it's all illegal, but everyone does it anyway.
I don't personally think it's stealing from the musicians, unless you upload it to a peer-to-peer website and distribute it. If it's among friends, who cares? The musicians lost, what? $1.50? Pfft.
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and to think - i've had so many friends burn CDs for me ... i'm going to jail!
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As an author, I make $1.50 off each hardback and $1.10 off each paperback sold. Musicians are in the same boat. For every person who passes my book on to a friend, that's a sale I don't get. The less sales I get, the less money I get to raise my family on, and the less of an up-front check I get for the next book because I only sold x copies. You dig?
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I don't personally think it's stealing from the musicians, unless you upload it to a peer-to-peer website and distribute it. If it's among friends, who cares? The musicians lost, what? $1.50? Pfft.
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