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You do realize that by providing links to illegal pirated copies of Vocaloid music, you are literally stealing from those producers of said music, some of who make so little money that they aren’t even able to support themselves. I don’t know of a single overseas Vocaloid music producer that I’d consider to be “doing OK” financially, so why you’d encourage people to download their music for free when those producers are trying to sell it just to scrape by with enough money to partially offset the costs of their Vocaloid software is beyond my comprehension.
You do realize that not everyone has easy access to purchase vocaloid albums even if they wanted, do you? Some people also simply don’t have the money to spare. Downloading “pirated” copies is not stealing from the producers, I’d say that over 99% of the time, that person would not buy the album from the get-go. I would go as far as to claim it almost helps, because this gives people the chance to “test out” if they like the album, if they think its the best album they’ve ever heard and absolutely want more, they are more likely to buy albums from the artist I’d think.
i have over 700 tracks in my itunes legal collection,
but i have no money physicaly buy more music…
i not an Abramovich, c’est la vie…
the worst thing is even if one loves some music and will buy album, huge part of payment goes to the corporation, which essentially does nothing helpful. more than this, bringing more harm to producers, artists and consumers.
there has to be another way, without corporations in the process.
why dont u pay your favorite music artist via paypal for example??
also, i see your server is located in US, thats means it falls under US jurisdiction. corporations already rolled out socalled TPP (trans pacific partnership), i recommend you to move servers outside of US while its not too late.
question of pirating music is difficult one. i think if one loves some art, it should pay to artist _directly_.
maybe some socialnetwork of artists with ability to accept micropayments for their work will be great idea. whenever you want to share some art – just share it, your friend will buy it and listen. this scheme also does more good things and increases quality of sharing process for example
gov breaks ones privacy and takes “taxes”, giving nothing in return. we need some virtual government to bypass real ones. something like LindenLabs has accomplished in “SecondLife”, but in the darknet.
btw, i dont think if i will go pay my favorite artist for tracks i love, it will be possible to prove the fact i have bought anything.
i can download 10 tracks for free and pay only for 3 of them, i really liked. saying “i just transferred some funds to my best friend and soul saver, and this is not your business, u will not get your “taxes”.
well, some social network can be created with artist posting free content, and “donate” button on artist’s page. and this ideally should be done without paypal (google “paypal sucks” and “paypal ebay karma”)
btw, just curious, since vocaloid creation, how many people donated to voice actors ? (for Miku its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki_Fujita ). its indeed profitable deal for the corporation – pay for voice acting just once and then make tons of profits of it without some work (artists doing all the work for them). i remember learning about the fact that huge vocaloid’s success is the reality that exists mainly thanks to Saki Fujita’s voice samples.