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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Make illegal downloading music files punishable by law All people who download files have got two options; download the legal way‚ or the illegal way. With legal downloading the buyer pays a certain amount of money for the music file he or she downloads‚ which goes to the artist‚ the record company and‚ in some cases‚ to the distributer of the file. But illegal downloading prevents record companies‚ artists and distributers to generate income. In addition‚ downloading music files on the internet
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silence ‚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
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Downloading music has become a part of everyday life of all most young people in modern world today. With the development of computer‚ downloading music and file-sharing are also developed. Although in someone’s opinion‚ that is a kind of piracy‚ I support music-downloading and file-sharing‚ as a teenager. First of all‚ we should ask why people like downloading music and sharing file which they are supposed to buy in the store. The main reasons are: users do not want to spend $18 to $20 bucks for
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Illegal Downloading Contents & Entertainment Industry Jae Seong Park English of Canada Do you know that how many important a music or movie is? As time goes by‚ nowadays people live in a hectic world and even today’s society advocates and requires this phenomenon. Most people who have a job usually work in weekdays and take a rest on weekends. Even some people work seven days a week. As developing modern industry‚ amount of people’s leisure time is decreasing more and more. Thus‚ when people
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Problems With Illegal Music Downloading In May of 2003 Kazaa had become the most downloaded software in the world with 230 million copies downloaded worldwide (Basen N.P.). So that is at least 230 million potential customers who are not paying for a lot of the music they are listening to. Downloading music for free is illegal and the current punishments are not doing enough to stop all of the downloaders. On June 31st 1999 the worlds first way for people to share music for free over the internet
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Illegal downloading With the popularity of the internet‚ sales for CDs‚ DVDs‚ movies and many other products have increased. With the increase in sales‚ this created a problem of illegal media being downloaded. Programs such as Bittorent‚ and other direct-connect networking programs have allowed illegal transferring of the media. Downloading song files from the internet over a free peer to peer network is the exact same as shoplifting music CDs from the local mall. When you download any illegal
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Essay on Illegal Downloading Record companies today believe that downloading music for free is a crime and hinders the sale of music in stores. Though it seems to be free‚ this paper present to the pros and cons of downloading music from the Internet. Important points will be discussed are the file sharing programs history‚ why downloading should be free and lawsuits for downloading music. Peer-to-Peer technology is a form of file sharing that enables the sharing of computer resources such as‚
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Illegally Downloading Music In the past ten years Internet music sharing has become a huge issue in the recording industry. Recording companies are furious‚ claiming that file swapping is destroying their album sales and greatly hurting the artists. Music consumers are justifying their actions by stating that album prices are outrageously high. In Anthony Gorry’s essay‚ “Steal This MP3 File: What Is Theft?”‚ the author demonstrates how illegal downloading of music is becoming a huge problem in
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Illegal Downloading "is" Stealing With the popularity of the Internet‚ sales for CDs‚ DVDs‚ Movies‚ and many other products have increased. Along with the increase of sales has brought forth an ever increasing problem of illegal media being downloaded. Programs such as Bittorent‚ Kazaa‚ and other direct-connect networking programs have allowed the transferring of such illegal media. Downloading song files from the Internet over a free peer to peer network is the moral equivalent of shoplifting
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