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Originally Posted by Buzzard  I have a question for those of you against pirating for the artists sake: What about dead artists? Should I have to pay for a Hendrix or Ray Charles album? Miles Davis or John Coltrane? |
Those artists all still have estates/families which are collecting royalties for their work.
I'm not sure how it works in the music industry, but for visual arts the copyright is good for (I think) 70 years plus the life of the author, so at some point the work does become public domain.