BeIR/webis-touche2020 huggingface dataset:
The industry actually benefits despite claims to the contrary

Revenue in Britain and the USA might have risen (partly as a result of both countries cultural dominance when it comes to pop) but what about other countries in Europe or for that matter the world?! The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI reports that in France the number of album releases by new artists fell by a thumping sixteen percent and in Spain a paltry 0.1 percent of downloads are actually legitimate ones that go to the consumer.[[http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/DMR2009.pdf]] That doesn't seem like free music benefiting the industry to me. Furthermore in the long run the music industry could stand to lose thousands of jobs by 2012 and an estimated £1.1 billion as a result, That's a lot of money that's not going to the industry. A little bit of promotion free music will boost a musician's career, but if music was all free, entirely free, then musicians would not generate any money at all, would they?
This may actually cause the music industry to die out

In our current society, musicians often get very, very, very rich. Money is one of the prime motivators for making music. We risk losing a good portion of aspiring musicians if this motion was passed. We might also lose a good many listeners to music. If music was free, then surely, sooner or later, it's novelty would wear off and people would get tired of it? If music was free, people would perhaps treat it like they would treat natural scenery; like something not really of worth and merely there for our casual entertainment. Songwriters would perhaps also lack enthusiasm for their songs, giving the public audience exactly what music was worth (free!)
Public opinion is against the pirates and illegal file sharing.

The same public that listens to and uses/downloads free music? The survey is a lie. If people steal music and claim they are against it, then they are lying or at least very very hypocritical. They probably did not know that the surveyors 'knew' they were stealing music,thus they wrote 'we don't think anyone should steal music' to get away with it...little did they know *wink*( I'm purely speculating). Anyway, ACTIONS speak louder than words or thoughts or questionnaire answers.
It's not just music at stake

Again, this is not about freedom of expression or fame or popularity. It is about fortune or making money. And statistics(cited in earlier yes-es) show, that artists in DEMAND are making more money off the 'internet market' in recent years despite piracy and the global financial crisis. The artists against piracy, are just greedy for even more money. Also, if people can buy media sitting at home/anywhere why would they go-to a record store? It is safe to conclude that the problem of lowered demand for tangible music, also results from the advent of the internet and whether music on the internet is free or not is irrelevant. People 'will continue to' prefer buying/getting things off the web over going to a record/C.D/Video store.
It helps RockStars live longer.

"An Eircom official told colleagues they should think of music piracy as ‘sharing’ and 'helping the health and good living of rich cocaine sniffing rock stars by leaving them with less free money to spend on sex and drugs,' the High Court heard today. Michael McDowell SC, for four record companies who claim Eircom should be compelled by the court to take measures to prevent the use of its networks for the illegal free downloading of music, said such music piracy is costing record companies here up to €14 million a year."- [[http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0115/breaking81.htm]] A lot of important Musicians feel piracy and free distribution of music brings them closer to their fans. This makes them healthier and happier. [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4067031.stm]]
The industry actually benefits despite claims to the contrary

Revenue for the British music industry has risen by almost 5% recently despite frequently voiced concerns about piracy damaging the industry. [[http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86724/uk-music-economist-says-music-industry-revenue-up-4-7/]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_United_States]] The U.S boasts a 40 billion dollar industry with only 12 billion dollars generated from the home turf. Dave Kusek points to how, despite the availability of free music on the Internet, Internet music sales are actually increasing and they presently account for 41% of the industry sales in total.[[http://www.futureofmusicbook.com/2009/01/music-stats-for-2008-from-soundscan/]]
Cripple our economy

i think that we should be fucking civalized about this queer topic. we should make all good music free while all that gay person music cost $1000 a song. that would make them fucking panzies go for fucking good now wouldnt it. so again go suck a fat dick you gay, man loving, butt plugging faggot. but go and suck a huge nazi dick Nazi lover 5.0 whoever the hell you are.(different person) this guys is really immature and im 13 so that is really bad for you fellow debater
Public opinion is against the pirates and illegal file sharing.

There is clear evidence that the general public across the globe want artists to be paid and for their intellectual rights to be respected. In France 84% of people who had downloaded music illegally thought artists and copyright holders should be protected. Also nine in ten consumers thought that copyright should be enforced by strong laws[[IFPI "Digital Music Report 2009: New Business Models for a changing environment]]. While some musicians may be in favour of free music the public realise that there is no such thing as a free MP3 so to speak
It's not just music at stake

Music isn't the only industry affected by the prospect of piracy and file sharing. Industries such as animation have been thumped badly by illegal filesharing combined with fan subbing which has hit DVD sales of anime both inside and outside of Japan badly and discourages animation from other countries. This situation could also make other forms of material such as comics or even non fiction books (research into writing them costs money) prohibitively expensive with no return on investment not even to cover costs. Admittedly there is a time honoured thing called doing it for love not money but with that being said in order for musicians and artists of any sort to be professionals and to hold concerts etc they have to have income streams. And one of the main income streams is through selling their finished product. Take that away from any artists and he or she is left in a tough position that may turn them away from their chosen profession
It Takes Money To Make Music

I think that many people are under the delusion that musical artists aren't "really working". This delusion needs to be shattered once and for all. Most musicians love music (as far as the making of and listening to goes) and hate "the business". But every musician learns early on that he or she cannot continue to make well produced music without dealing with that very same business. There has to be some kind of cash flow; to think any other way as a musician is to doom oneself to failure on manifold levels. Non musical people, aka the general listening public, think that Popular music stars live lives of decadence and don't deserve to be paid for their hedonistic lifestyles. But, ironically, even the Rock Star lifestyle presented is more often than not a product of Public Relations, typically designed to sell cds. Go buy cds and mp3s, people. Artists need your support, otherwise only computers will manufacture music. Being that the autotuner can make any fluffy girl or boy a star, we're already halfway there.
Most people already get it for free already.

5 bucks for song? Where the hell do you shop? The most expensive ive seen a song is $1.29? and if you want to speak of such an art being too expensive, look how much paintings go for. You can get a whole album for a fraction of the price of a painting. This means that you can purchase 10-15 pieces of art for half the price of a painting. Talk about pricey
Free music throttles (strangles) freedom of artistic expression

Free music is not the problem. Greater demand for certain specific genres of music and/or languages is. If people rob themselves of the right to listen to musical genres or music in languages that they do NOT want to listen to, in the first place. Then, what is the harm? It is the will of the people. Freedom of expression is not curtailed , anyone can make and post music on various social-networking/ video/audio-hosting sites for free. These artists are ONLY halted from SELLING their tracks. Tracks that do not harness enough public demand/attention or economic demand for that matter. This is merely, a natural consequence of the means to capitalist market efficiency.
Beyonce is a music artist; That is her only job

Beyonce is not a music artist. Beyonce is a corporate scheme to make millions of dollars and the record label executives and herself rich. Music's purpose is lost when people make a "job" out producing music. Underground music is where you find quality music and not the catchy tunes you hear on the radio that get boring after a week. Most of these musicians cannot make a living off of what they produce yet there are so many of them.
This may actually cause the music industry to die out

i also think that if music is illegal and where arresting people for it then why dont we do something about these fucking mexicans crossing the fucking border. so if we are going to waste our money on music downloaders then go suck a huge cock you queer ass fucking man loving panzies look who ever keeps typeing this gay stuff your name should be nazi lover 5.0 in that case i just farted and it tickled my butthole yum i am going to jack off to that fart (Tats nasty)
Most people already get it for free already.

We all know that most people get their music for free illegally. They think that 5 bucks a song is not worth it, and they ar right. The money is really stopping us to get music and listen to it ourselves. We cant fully appreciate it and the quality of free music sometimes is awful. Music is for everyone so everyone should be able to get it rich or poor. Music is a form of expressing yourself and it shouldn't be just a form of making money, it is art and should be appreciated that way. it shouldn't be so hard to obtain. It should be free. It should be open. Music is more than just a glamour of hollywood. It is art, feeling, rhythm, beat and so much more. We should let people be able to get it for free. That way more people would be able to listen to it. The artists probably earn money either way.
Major music industries/companies

companies are making to much money off of artist for instance: Justin bieber made 389,000 off of his hit single "boyfriend" his contractors had to give 200,000 to itunes and kept some of the profits leaving justin with 83,000. Justing makes over 50 million a concert. Im not going to buy his album but if it was free i would go and check it out. But with people who do listen to his music and dont want to buy a song they downlaod it and if they like it they might want to go to his concert where its maybe 100$ or over for a ticket! labels should stop trying to pull money out of songs and focus more on the concerts and tours.
Free music throttles (strangles) freedom of artistic expression

Yves Riesel made this quote in 2008: “ The victim of online music piracy is the freedom of artistic expression.” and he's right[[http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/DMR2009.pdf]] . As a result of the chunks that online piracy is taking out of the industry smaller independent labels and distributors some of which have had file for bankruptcy and close down like CBUJ which a lot of people will not have heard of but was responsible for the distribution of CD's for 44 "different labels "whether artists or bands[[ Kyle Swenson " Music distributor files for chapter 7" The Nashville post Accessed 10.08.09 http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2009/7/20/local_music_distributor_files_for_chapter_7%5D%5D . While this event doesn't show in itself that freedom of expression is being hurt it means that fourty four different labels have lost a way of distributing their tracks to the market and to people. That means that other genres have harder time breaking through and artists in a bid to gain sales to support themselves are limited in what genres or even what languages they can use and how far they can appeal.
Upbringing is the key

Regardless of the size of inheritance these children are entitled to, upbringing and parental guidance are the deciding factors. To simply putting the blame on wealth and family backgrounds is to neglect the duties of the parents and society as a whole. A large sum of money (or the equivalent of it) is a bonus. It may help to open more doors for the children. However, it can only do so if the children know how to make good use of their inheritance. What determines if they are able to spend their inheritance intelligently? Family upbringing. One may come from a less well-off family, and yet still be a source of anti-social behaviours.
Can create improve racial harmony

In South Africa, all the wealth and glamour of the world cup has managed to do is make the differences between the wealth of white and black people clear. DJ Trevor Nelson "That's not just going to disappear because the World Cup is or was in South Africa. This is going to be Fifa's biggest profit-making World Cup. They are going to make more money out of it than any other tournament. "It is perverse. Almost none of that money will trickle down to the people that need it, those in the townships." Sport also shows other evidence of the divide between black and white. In South Africa football is considered more of a black sport, while rugby is a white sport. This was clear when at one of the World Cup warm up matches nearly 100% of the crowd was black [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/05/31/dj-trevor-nelson-tells-how-south-africa-s-shiny-new-stadiums-only-mask-poverty-and-a-racial-divide-115875-22298531/]].
Can create improve racial harmony

France was considered by many to be the most racially troubled country In Europe prior to their World Cup win in 1998. But the win by a team made up of many different ethnicities showed the benefits of immigration and racial difference. Head of Time magazine in France “The soccer team [did] more to promote racial tolerance in France, and pride and a sense of belonging amongst its immigrant population, than anything the government could have ever done.” Those had cried out against immigration were declaring their love for Zidane and Desailly. In South Africa people are hoping that the World Cup will help to heal their racial divisions, which have become more prominent recently due to talk of land resettlement and the murder of a white supremacist earlier this year.
Can unite politically divided countries

In 2000, after the the Cote d'Ivoire went out of the African Cup of Nations in the group stages the whole team was imprisoned by the military government, who had seized power in a coup two months before. The players were taken to a military camp and were not allowed to leave once they arrived at the airport upon their return from the tournament. It emerged that the incarcerated players were being given “lessons in patriotism”. Apparently few Ivorians cared. There was no Amnesty-style campaign to “free the Ivory Coast 22”. In fact most appeared to think that a little jailing was the least their former heroes deserved, especially as they were paid £4000 to represent their nation, a small fortune by Ivorian standards [[http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/3731/29/]]. Also, in the recent African Cup of Nations in Angola, 3 people were killed in an attack on the Togo team bus as it travelled through the region of Cabinda. The attack was carried out by the rebel group Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (Flec), who had been fighting for independence for several decades. In this case hosting a tournament was not enough to unify a politically divided country.
Can unite politically divided countries

Honduras was in a state of political turmoil with the President Manuel Zelaya forced into political exile last July. Honduran Football Association President, Rafael Callejas "If we had not qualified for the World Cup the differences in Honduras would have become enhanced and probably we would have had high levels of violence...People were tranquilised by the game, it gave them hope and happiness." The country is now able to unite behind their national football team for this year's World Cup in South Africa. In the Cote d'Ivoire football team has also helped to unite a country previously torn apart by civil war. Drogba was able to help unite his country by and convince them that the five-year-long civil war was truly at an end by insisting that a vital World Cup qualifying match in 2007 be played in the formerly rebel north. The Ivory Coast then went on to qualify for the tournament for the first time, uniting all of the country with a shared sense of achievement and hope for the future [[http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/28/uniting-africa.html]].
Can cause diplomatic crises

This year the World Cup could help to ease tensions between North and South Korea after the recent sinking of a South Korean ship, allegedly by a North Korean missile. Glyn Ford, author of 'Korea on the Brink' "North Koreans would prefer South Korea to win against anyone else, unless they're playing them." They're cheering for Koreans. Korea marched under a single flag at the 2004 Olympics. Shows uniting qualities of sport. In previous world cup campaigns good runs by either of the Korean teams have helped to unify the people. Pak Doo-ik, member of 1966 NK team "I learned that football is not only about the winning," he says. "Wherever we go football can improve diplomatic relations and promote peace."
Can cause diplomatic crises

Soccer war of 1969 between El Salvador and Honduras coincided with rioting during the 1970 world cup qualifiers where the two teams were playing each other. Broke out just 3 weeks after the match. It left 6000 people dead. Ryszard Kapuscinski, foreign correspondant "In Latin America, the border between soccer and politics is vague…There is a long list of governments that have been overthrown after the defeat of the national team." . During the recent world cup qualifying campaign Algeria’s win over Egypt nearly caused a diplomatic crisis. There was intense violence in Cairo, and Egyptian businesses in Algiers were attacked after stones were allegedly thrown at the Algeria team bus. Algeria has recently frozen a $750mil deal with Eqypt’s Ezz Steel as the project ‘has been affected by the financial crisis and problems linked to soccer’. Egypt has been punished by FIFA and cannot play their next two qualifiers in Cairo. Also during this world cup qualifying campaign a qualifying match between North and South Korea had to be moved from Pyongyang to Shanghai, after North Korea refused to play the South Korean national anthem. George Orwell "At the international level sport is frankly mimic warfare,"
Fans can get violent

Fans are often very passionate for their teams and this can often lead to violence. Football is well known for hooliganism and this can often occur when there are international football matches. As a recent example there has been violence between Egyptian and Algerian fans in the games leading up to the final qualification for this year's world cup in South Africa. After the match between Algeria and Egypt that sent Algeria to the finals James Montegue As pictures beamed back of wild Algerian celebrations, Egyptian TV was flooded with calls from Egyptian fans claiming to have been attacked by knife-wielding Algerians. "Damn the so-called Arab unity, we should no longer talk about it," an angry Ibrahim Hegazi said on his NileSport show. "We should review our situations. We can no longer bear such incidents." [[http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/06/11/unity_through_soccer_not_in_the_middle_east]] Not surprisingly this had been after the match mentioned above where the Algerian team had been attacked. Montegue goes on Mubarak watched the aftermath of Egypt's failure to qualify for the World Cup on TV, his finger hovering over the red button, ready to send Egypt's special forces to Sudan to protect his citizens. Thankfully, he took his finger off the trigger. "Egypt does not tolerate those who hurt the dignity of its sons," he later told a televised address to parliament. "We don't want to be drawn into impulsive reactions. I am agitated too, but I restrain myself." This shows the amount of worry about the violence that can come out of football matches. But of course there is plenty of violence in domestic games too that potentially serves to divide communities. Again a reasonably recent example of this would be the violence between Milwall and West Ham fans in August 2009 that involved pitch invasions, West Ham fans bombarding the police with imporvised missiles such as bottles, and a man was stabbed. All hell broke loose - it was very frightening. Bottles and bricks were being thrown from the back and some were hitting West Ham fans at the front. There were loads of people with bloodied faces. [[Mass violence mars London derby, BBC News, 25/8/09, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8221451.stm%5D%5D
Effects on morale.

Work, in itself as a meaningful activity with a clear goal and a visible end result, is often very satisfying, even if it is just cleaning or filing. Unemployment can cause people even more depression than the least satisfying jobs, simply because of the feeling of worthlessness and the long periods of idleness. Landing a job in a recession also leaves people with a feeling of extra success - 'Second, landing a job in what is now a very competitive marketplace at almost all levels is also confidence-building. It breeds the belief that one can indeed find a job, so it automatically thwarts the development of fear, cynicism and other attitudes that can take ugly root in this job climate and inhibit a job search — and breed depression a well.' (Hara Estroff Marano - http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/is-any-job-better-than-no-job/)
Degrades education.

We live in a largely capitalist/materialist world where being a breadwinner is everything. There are paramount problems in the world. A paper has long-run/term benefits that will be reaped first and foremost by the richest among us. In the meanwhile making money is important so that the intelligentsia's dreams are realized as soon as possible. Where does funding come from? Who is going to test your research? And who knows machines could possibly replace P.H.Ds in the future.
Work experience.

Some of the menial work suggested, such as cleaning and bar work, is genuinely dead-end work. This also assumes that the work encourages good work practices. Many low end jobs involve some kind of illegal or unethical conduct such as unsafe work conditions, making low quality products or offers of help with benefit fraud. Skills such as sweeping floors and wiping windows will only give you experience for a job in the world of menial work. So as pointed out above they are dead end jobs. It's better to settle for an unpaid internship that gives you useful experience than to go for a job that will leave one mired in mediocrity.