Illegal music in the internet
I meet from time to time people who don’t understand, why people copy music illegally.
Usually, these people buy music legally. Here a short essay about my thoughts.
People grow up with music everywhere. Music is commonly used to show things. Many times for the purpose of selling products. Music is a product and is being sold as well. Why is music for free at so many places?
In the radio or the TV because of making money with the advertisement before and after. Selling.
With radio I also include web radio. The system is all the same: music as a media for transmitting
the sales message. But the selling is made clever. The “user” does not give the primary attention to the sales intention. Music is filling the spaces in our lives.
Music is in movies a main emotion transmitter as well but I don’t go deeper in that here.
So, why people don’t honestly pay for music if they want to listen to it without adverts or at places, where the stream of music (with sales activities) are not “on-line”?
I want to compare it with some sort of animal with some form of intelligence. Imagine apples are everywhere available and these animals eat it but not as primary food. Apples are for free. But usually the quality is not that good. Then some of these being use apples for other purposes or to achieve some goals. They let it grow and make them perfect and shiny. There are no bad apples in a box which comes along with some sort of “Sales”.
Apples still are very common but the world has changed. There are 2 kind of apples now. The natural ones and the prepared ones. So now an individual grows up in that world and learns apples are free but the good one (without advertisement and in a higher quality) are not as much for free. There are still free but connected to something. For example to new rules. If you get them, you can not sell them or give it to a friend just like this. So beside of the rule, these beings do it anyway. They know the special prepared apples are not really as free as the natural free apples and it costs money to make the better apples.
But from a psychological point of view it is difficult to appeal to the “users” that the other free apples are not free. Free is not free. That is to be understood.
Why I write such a story? Human beings listen to music since – now, wrong start – people MAKE music since many thousands of years. There was a long period of time where music was made for fun and listen to for fund too. Music was not commercial. And still people don’t really want to pay for it. Music transmits messages and emotions. Making expensive videos and shows and have a business with it connected is now the world we live in. Illegal music in the internet is against those, who live from it. They live from something, which used to be fully free and made and listen to people without other intentions.
On top of this: even if the people would like to buy music, many can not afford to buy as much as they want. Buying bread goes first.
Now people say, OK, illegal copies are not followed by the police. People who actually copy it and make it available for free are the criminals. We enter a grey zone again. Like free things are not really for free. The criminals are not really as criminal as others. Owning is forbidding but not that “bad” as copying it.
I don’t wonder, why people do illegal activities like this. People are just human beings. Everybody knows that is is not OK. … actually a bit like the environmental awareness. Dumping something into the forest is not OK but because of some reasons, people do it anyway very simplified but still true to some part).