MUSIC PIRACY
...tists music so that they may preview before they buy, and lets face it, CD’s are not cheap. At around an average of $16 a pop, consumers feel cheated by an industry that they know can manufacture and distribute a CD at a cost of a mere dollar or less. However, if people are allowed to download music for free, they may have a more proactive voice in their spending habits, and this in turn will help an artist via the exposure. Ian states that “Without exposure, no one comes to shows, no one buys CDs, no one enables you to earn a living doing what you love.” She further supports her view by adding that “…when someone writes and tells me they came to my show Pettit 2 because they’d downloaded a song and gotten curious, I am thrilled.” The consumers feel that the peer-to-peer sites offer them the best access to what they consider the best music, and they have an ethic of financially supporting th...