Originally Posted by AaronAuthier
I disagree with your morality argument. I'm not religious. I don't care to judge people. I don't put things in columns of what is "moral" and what is "immoral".
What is "immoral" to you may be "moral" to me. I'd prefer it if religion were left out of this discussion. Please.

At no point did I mention religion. I'm not religious either. Morality is not exclusive to religion. It's a concept of right and wrong. Some people might be perfectly happy having their hard work stolen. Others are not. I fall on the side of - I'm not cool with people stealing my work. I bust my ass to create well written and recorded music. I expect to be compensated fairly for it.

Has my music been stolen? Yes. When I find out, I usually ask why that person felt the need to not compensate me. Usually the answer is: "I don't know."

There is a growing trend of professional musicians who have had enough of the b.s. about not being compensated and being asked to do things on spec or, my fav, "for the promotion of your career." Which is a crock.

Today there's an article going around about the Olympics in London. Where they are asking artists and bands to perform for free: "For the exposure." Here's the link: http://www.publicemilie.com/post/21442779576 Mind you the UKOC paid MUSE £400,000 for a really lame song as the official song (I've heard it and I like MUSE, but that song is terrible, certainly not Olympic worthy). Yet they can't pay performers at the event? C'mon.

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