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Originally posted by phoenix1002
I disagree with the comment that "we don't have a right to music"
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Sorry...I should clarify. We all have a right to music. It would be a tyrranical government which prevented any one of us from performing music. We have the right to make music, and we have the right to listen to music when the artist has given us the right to listen to it.
What we don't have the right to, is ownership of Metallica's latest album, for free. We don't have the right to own specific music. Artists have the right, when they create music, to demand that people pay to hear it, whether that means charging for a CD or charging at the door of a concert. And of they charge too high a price, then let them know they are charging too much by not buying the CD. But you don't have the right to own that track in some form without paying what the artist is asking for it.
If there is a label between you and the artist, or if that label is screwing the artist out of their money, that is between the artist and the label.