Is Downloading Free Music from the Internet Legal? Nowadays‚ it is extremely easy to download free music from the internet. All someone has to do is download some peer to peer file-sharing application such as Kazaa‚ Edonkey‚ Blubster‚ or Bearshare‚ and you have unlimited access to download just about anything that you please. But is downloading free music from one of these applications legal? I think that it is. This paper will look at both sides of the argument. The first online peer to peer file-sharing
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On any given day I could do anything I wanted because I could drive. I could feel the textures of the roads‚ smell the fresh air when my windows were down‚ see the beautiful terrain that I drove through and I could hear any type of musical tunes I wanted to. I felt as if I was on top of the world with my drivers’ license. What more could I ask for at such a young age of only 16 years old? My drivers’ license brought me great feelings and let me do more with my life than I could ever do before. As
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Illegal Downloading: Everyone does it‚ so what’s the problem? You are sitting at home on the computer thinking of what you want to do. You realize you haven’t heard the latest song from your favorite band. You start up a P2P (peer-to-peer) program called Limewire. You search for your song and it appears in the list; you start to download it. What you just did was completely illegal and can get you into a lot of trouble. Most people would think to themselves‚ “What’s the harm in downloading
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A memorable day in my life Life is full of various events and experiences. But all of these are not equally important‚ enjoyable and memorable. Some are memorable. I am a student. There are some memorable days and they remain evergreen in my heart. My first day at school is such a day. It was the month of January‚ 2007. I was then only six years old. My father proposed that I should be admitted into a school in class one the next day. I felt very excited. I could not think of anything else
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Elaine McArdle said‚ “The music industry is struggling with a full blown crisis”. What could possibly be pushing the music industry into a crisis one might ask‚ illegally downloading free music. In the essay‚ Up on Downloading‚ three Harvard Law School professors are trying to come up with different solutions to this problem that is occurring. Now that our technology has become so advanced‚ many people are figuring out ways to cheat the system‚ and when people are not paying for the music they have
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Gisela Lopez Ms. S. Nylander English 1A Narrative August 26‚ 2012 The Most Memorable Day of my Life The most memorable day of my life was‚ September 4‚ 1995 in Chicago‚ IL. It was 6:00 a.m. when my alarm clock woke me up. The first day of high school was finally here. I was excited‚ but a lot more nervous. I got out of bed‚ got ready‚ and then was on my way to the bus stop. All I could think of is the stories I heard about high school being so horrible with all the mean teachers‚ the hard tests
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The Most Memorable Event in My Life Everyone has a special memory that they will never forget. To me ‚ visiting my grandparents in countryside with my big family was the most memorable day .i was 4th grade . It was my first visit with that many people ‚ to a countryside that I had always wanted to visit during the school months was countryside village that I was born in . Doing a trip with my big family was a lot of fun . We drove off with 3 cars from city to the village. My
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and to many people in many cultures‚ music is an important part of their way of life . Invention of the internet and copyable audio-file formats made downloading and sharing music very easy . However‚ this should be considered a criminal acts as downloading music for free is equal to stealing . There are several reason why downloading music for free is equal to stealing . Firstly ‚ because it is legal issue . Music is under copyright and taking it without permission for the rightful owner is wrong
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Ten years ago‚ the Internet was practically unheard of by most people. Today‚ the Internet is one of the most powerful tools throughout the world. The Internet is a collection of various services and resources. The Internet’s main components are E-mail and the World Wide Web. Actually‚ there’s a lot more to the Internet than E-mail‚ search engines‚ celebrity web sites‚ up-to-the-second sports scores‚ and chat rooms full of discussions. The Net also ranks as one of today’s best business tools. Almost
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