Internet piracy is everywhere you look. Internet piracy is when people download music from the internet without paying for those songs. People are downloading music, and videos and movies all the time. Some people even make this in to a business. They will download music from the internet and make CDs and sell them without paying for the music that they download. There are a lot of programs that let people download as much music as they want. And all the programs are free and easy to download. This is main reason why there is so much internet piracy the fact that it is so easy to do is the reason why so many people do it. These people get all this music and movies without any consequences, sure once in a while some people get caught doing this. But there are still millions of people that are doing it. There are other programs that let you download music the legal way, which means that you have to pay for the music. For example, iTunes and Napster are popular programs that let people download music the legal way. But this way does not help the musicians because someone can just be a member to an online website where they just pay a couple of dollars a month and download all the music they want with no restrictions. These types of programs but they do not hurt them as much as downloading there music for free.
I do not believe that it will be very difficult for the music industry to stop internet piracy. I believe that there will always be someone who is able to find the music and put it online for everyone to download. I do not see how the music industry could do anything at all, this will be very difficult for them to achieve. All it takes is for someone to buy the album of an artist and then they could post it online and from there anyone one around the world with internet access can access these songs and listen or download them. I have known about these programs since I was around 10 years old and I am now 20 years old. So that shows how long that people have been able to download free music. And since then all my friends and their friends have been able to get all the music that they want for free.
I believe that both the musicians and the music industry lose because of internet piracy. The musicians work hard to make their music and there producers and record companies also work hard to get there music out to the world for everyone to enjoy. Why shouldn’t they get paid for the hard work they put into their music. It is not fair to the artist because they put everything in to their music so we can enjoy it. Just imagine yourself working really hard on something and spend many sleepless night trying to perfect your work all just for someone to take it without paying you what you deserve for all the hard work you put into it.
You have many great points in your reply. I fell the same way that you do towards being able to stop piracy. Stopping piracy is going to be a very tough thing. I don’t feel so much that the musicians are really loosing in this situation because their music is still getting out there. The musicians are keeping the spotlight because all their fans are promoting them. Yeah, they are not selling as many records, but the music is still being heard. In reality if someone has the opportunity to get music and save money. I think that they are going to do it. In today’s economy with all the problems and money becoming harder to make. It is to expensive to go and buy an album for fifteen dollars here and there. I am not saying that I am for piracy, but this is really going to be a tough one to get rid of. All we can really do is our part in purchasing the music and seeing how many other’s we can get to follow along. Unfortunately this topic is always going to be a very controversial matter and people are going to do what they want.
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