CNN's Kareen Wynters reports on downloading music...

wooohooooo I totally agree with the theory as a whole. And I do not think kids will run out and steal things lmao thats ludacris!! Bout time someone was the real deal and not afraid to say it!! Awesome new album btw....please come closer to south carolina!!

you are so fuckin' awesome! haven't seen anything like this since abby hoffman wrote 'steal this book'. man the world is going to hell in a handbasket. i have never seen so much greed in my lifetime. thank you for your wonderful music, i have been a fan for a long time, i love music. with you though, it is all the real deal, baby. which makes your music 100000000 times better. thanks for everything, mr. rock!

What a load of baloney Kid Rock! iTunes is the problem and the enemy? Umm... why than do indie artists I know who are on CDBaby get $0.64/song? Some are making a good living too! Sounds like you get a bad record contract Kid. How could you not know about CDBaby... not that you care... but come on! Oh and what computer system were you using to do your albums? Probably Apple. Your website? YouTube Video? Yeah let's blame Apple for all the problems. How about the fucking record industry who is trying to live this glamorous lifestyle they have had for decades fucking over the artist AND the consumer? Over saturating the airwaves with crap? They're dinosaurs and they're soon going to be done! And let's steal everything? Yeah... great advice. Let's contribute to the over-populated prison system and have kids go to jail because they listened to a schmuck like you. How about I steal all of your riches? Do you really need everything? You say you're rich so what's the problem? By the way... you and Kroeger at the Red Wings game... how suitable two arrogant ass-holes who got more radio play than anyone can stomach sitting together.

I get the point he's trying to make... but if he's going to refuse to make his music available online, I'm going to refuse to buy a CD with his music. And if I were to buy a CD, I would only end up putting it in my computer and doing the same damn thing I would've done downloading it to begin with... that's listening to it on my portable music player. It's horribly short-sighted in this day and age to totally shun an online means of making your content available to the masses. If people want to rip you off, they're going to rip you off. Not putting your music on iTunes because you think it makes it easier for people to share your music is only hurting the millions of us out here that don't participate in file sharing, and have no interest in it, and only want to be able to enjoy the music we love. In fact, the files people make from ripping the CD, rather than downloading it from iTunes, have ZERO protection on them against file sharing. At least iTunes has that going for it.