smokingoods said:
and presumably, somebody somewhere bought the album and then ripped it and posted it on the net, whats the difference?
The difference is, 1 person buys it rips it n gives it out to thousands...or sometimes millions of people, but if those people that downloaded the album bought the album, thats a BIG DIFFERENCE
Think of it this way, say an artist released a album, if downloading music didnt exist, then that artist would make twice as much money then he would if it did exist, cuz people would have no other choice but 2 buy an album artist's to bump they shit, n because the artist is makin more money that makes him/her more confident in thier music n they would release more albums n etc....