Reply #1: I don't have a problem with having to pay for music. [View All]

When the printing press was invented printers decided that there was no such thing as copyright since they wanted to be able to sell books but didn't want to pay authors.

They made a ton of money for a couple years, but since there was no money in writing books any longer, all the people who would have been great writers decided to be lawyers and doctors instead. So inbread royals and other really dumb people wrote all the books (since they didn't have to worry about income) and the quality of the books published detiorated dramatically. When everyone already owned a copy of everything that was good (none of which had been written in the recent past) printers decided that they did like copyright law after all.

Paying for copyright material is a bargain made by the consumer, the publisher and the author to make sure every has an incentive. The consumer wants good product, and the author needs to get paid for his or her labor.

If you want free music on the internet, you better really like motown, because that might be the last good music you ever hear.