Everyone who listens to music needs to READ THIS!

[AverageJoe90]

34. I actually thought this article was decently thought out for the most part, but.......

The biggest issue I had with this was that he stated that the 'Free Culture' movement was corporate backed.......I'm sorry, but other than perhaps a few, that simply isn't true for 99% of them. The truth is, the corrupt commercial interests really are against them and they'll place the blame on everyone other than the people who are really causing the problem, and that is crooks in the music industry, like the SOBs running the RIAA. Unfortunately, Dave didn't mention this much, if at all, in his article.

I do give him kudos for trying to present his argument in a compassionate and logical manner, but in the end, it just doesn't quite hold water here, all good points taken into consideration.

TBH, I used to be against music 'piracy' when I was younger. Then I began to understand the reality of how copyright law operates in today's America.

Here's a question for those of you who have bought into the "Downloading is theft" line: If downloading is truly theft, then isn't non-commercial radio guilty the same thing, according to this logic? I listen to a very well-known indie station in New Jersey that's been around since the late '50s and they've survived only on donations and records that their employees buy(And I personally have been opened up to a whole new world of music thanks to these guys.) Should they suffer for offering their services for free like downloaders do?

That is the mentality of the pundits pushing this crap, I'm sad to say. And many good people like Dave Lowery don't realize it yet......