Do you think that music piracy is destroying the recording industry? Why or Why not?

I auctually think its helping the music indrustry!

Yeah some sales of songs are going down, but people download these songs for free, then gain a sorta respect for the author(s). Said people are more likely to buy a ticket to the preformences, or for a CD.

Some people just pirate everything they do, but I belive that most people pirate just to get a taste of what they can see at a preformence, beceause they dont wana waste there money on something they wont like.

...But I'm not a mind reader. What does everyone else think?

The amount of piracy there is taking place is nothing more than what it has been over the years. The only reason the music industries whine about it is because they've gotten greedier and because of this they predict these huge numbers and when they don't match up, they claim losses, so their projected sales don't match up to actual sales. And because they don't match up they need a scapegoat to blame it on so that no one suspects really why the numbers don't match up.

But there is no more piracy now than there ever has been. Before people used to tape the songs off the radio, and stuff like that, which was piracy but it wasn't pushed to be stopped like it is now...

I say if the music industry was really concerned about it, then they should have nipped it in the bud earlier before (When the piracy was first starting.)

But at the same time, piracy does help the industry some, like SethWhiteFox said. People don't want to pay for stuff they don't like and how are they going to know whether they like it without listening to it first... (And the radio is fairly unreliable for this... atleast where I live, the radio only plays the few most popular songs over and over.)

Just call me Seth, its a hell of alot eayser; I just took the longer name beceause I thought "Seth" would be taken.

But anyway, I agree on your point to! In fact I don't know why I didn't see it that way before you mentioned it. Alot of people out there are just looking to be the next big thing, and when they don't the majority of them get pissed, and throw blame around.

Wheres Totekeke when we need him?! Go! K.K. Slider!
(Horrible Animal Crosing refrence...)

If I remember right Kanye West threw a tantrum because he didn't win some award... and thats exactly what the music company is, they aren't getting what they want so they throw a tantrum.

They aren't really hurting that bad anyway... Last I heard they were pulling in well over 2.6 billion US dollars... (2 600 000 000 dollars). So they aren't exactly hurting, besides even with the piracy there is, I've heard that if there was no piracy they'd only be getting .1 billion more... Which in the grand scheme of things is a drop in the bucket for them. It'd just end up in a rich person's pocket anyway, and they don't even really care about it their so filthy rich.

If the music industry really wants to salvage itself then they need to:
1) Stop trying to attack people who pirate, it's ineffective at best, especially across international borders where laws are different. You can't stop them so don't even try, don't waste effort there especially when you'd spend more money trying to stop them than you'd gain from being rid of them.
2) Produce music people want to hear and make it available cheaply and widely (so people won't want or need to pirate it. even 15$ a cd is a rip off if you only like 3 songs on it.. as is the case most of the time. )
3) Take responsibility for own actions, don't blame pirates for cd sales being down... it could be a slow month aside from the fact people may not have the money or what ever other reason. But people may not be buying songs because they don't like the selection ( see 2nd point about the cds...) Not to mention people do get tired of the same crap getting forced down their throats...