Should Music Be Free (legally)? Do You Download Music? How Much Of Your Music Is Downloaded? Do you download music? How much of your music library (at a guess) is

[saitunes 0]

How many of you download music, and how much of your music library is made up of downloaded music?This is for an assignment. And I need some numbers. Feel free to post your thoughts, Should music be free?

[renalm2 0]

I think that music should be free. Though the musicians also should have conditions to live well only with their work. So I don't know how could this be possible... Maybe the government should pay to musicians do their work... This way anybody could listen to music legally and all would pay. Perhaps musicians wouldn't like this approach as they might earn less...

[Saint_Michael 3]

If music was free then their be no point in copyrights and then people can claim that they wrote this song or that song and the fact musicians wouldn't be able to make money for the hard work they put in just so you can listen to music. Their is a much larger cycle that includes studio fees, sponsors, contracts etc etc. So no music shouldn't be free unless the artist says so and that is rarely the case.

[saitunes 0]

"Selling" music freely would require the costs of production to be paid for another way, such as sponsorship. E.G a CD with album artwork and a coke logo on the front and back, and maybe the first or last track with a voiceover 'This album is brought to you by coke' Or there's what radiohead did, release their album digitally, and you paid what you thought was fair, or you could pay XX amount and get a boxed editioin.