if you can’t anticipate the amount of freeloaders when becoming an artist in this day and age, then you shouldn’t be in the business. Prime example, lil’wayne. Sure, you can not like his music or his genre, but he has done unlimited colaborations and promotionals, most of which is on myspace and free. When his album finally dropped, he sold a million copies in like a week or something stupid. The idea here is quantity and quality. You just have to keep producing. If your *edited* is good enough, it will be bought.
There is nothing wrong with downloading music, just like there is nothing wrong from ripping off peoples art to use as desktop backgrounds, or posters. What gives people the right to set there background to whatever the hell they want? Using someone else’s work, that took them time and money?? It’s the same *edited* thing, just part of the business. And, sure call it “illegal”, but it’s only illegal if you keep the torrent file on your computer. Erase that, and your golden.
Which is why I keep buying only the highest of quality music, and stealing the rest. I mean borrowing, not stealing. stealing is bad. 