Bandwagon

This is the most searched phrase in the category of “music.”

I’m not sure if anyone can be surprised by this…music piracy is so common now that law abiding citizens don’t even consider that they are breaking the law when they download full length albums for free. We don’t know we’re breaking the law anymore, and when someone gets penalized for downloading free music, we all are extremely surprised.

Why do we think that once an artist records a song and puts it in the public atmosphere, that it’s ours and we can own it at the artists cost? No we won’t pay for something we passionately love! No, we won’t allow the artist to make a living! It’s strange that we will steal from the artists that we love and then look confused when artists frown on illegal downloads.

If it were up to me to define, I would suggest that we want to cheat huge corporations, not the artists. We think they make too much money. I also think that we’re a selfish generation, and that we want artists to be our own — by stealing from them we may feel like we’re keeping the artist away from becoming mainstream.

But really, who knows? It’s something everyone seems to be doing, and although it’s not right, we keep doing it.

Here’s a video called Ace Enders & a Million different people, with all profits going to the Save the Music Foundation. Apparently artists do care that we’re stealing the music. Ironically? Someone bought this song, and put it on the video below without the artists permission to “share” with all of us — again, stealing? Who knows, the line is a bit grey.