illegal downloading

With the current witch hunt that seems to be going on by the industry against individuals and websites involved in illegal downloading of music it got me thinking of the old 80’s message that home taping was killing music! This slogan was designed to prick the conscience of the average law abiding music fan that would copy an album off a friend or record a track off the radio and make them think that because of their actions the whole industry was going to collapse.

So the question that I was thinking about was this, are their really any more people downloading music for free now than were illegally copying abums or taping off the radio back in the day?

I don’t think so, I am sure that almost everyone of a particular age at some point in their life taped a song off the radio or copied an album they didn’t buy and suprise suprise the industry survived. Now I am in no way supporting or condoning ripping off music for free I am just tired of hearing the same old scaremongering from the industry and it seems to me the only difference is that it is easier to track the culprits down these days.