Do you think file sharing is okay? If you think it is, here are some points which may make you think otherwise…
You are ripping artists off, committing a crime and could be fined, maybe (on some occasions) even sent to prison. Instead of being fined an average of £250,000 would you not rather pay for the music legally and have prevent the hassle of paying a fine? In addition to that, many of these illegal websites have perilous viruses that can take your bank details while you shop online. So you will be robbed of all your money, just like how you are robbing the music artists!
There are many different websites to illegally download music, the most known ones being flvto, YouTube to mp3.
Surprisingly there are a lot of people in the industry that do not mind if their music is taken illegally. Musicians including Robbie Williams, Annie Lennox, Billy Bragg, Blur’s David Rowntree and Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien said that the public should not be prosecuted for downloading illegal music from the internet. This is because their music spreads and they could end up being more rich and famous than they already were.
They say it doesn't matter but do they know all the facts? Up to $250 billion are lost per year due to piracy and nearly 750,000 jobs are lost. There is an extremely large amount of unemployed people in the U.S and UK; it is staggering how many people are struggling to find a job and piracy is a big factor contributing to the unemployment figures. how would you feel if you were the cause of someone losing their job and all you done was download a free song?
to sum up the positive things, piracy can be seen as a positive thing as musicians can become more known through illegal file sharing and therefore become richer. When someone is more famous they are more passionate about their work and this will influence them to carry on with what they are doing. A lot of people do not have enough money to buy even the essentials, how would they have enough money to buy CD’s? you cannot expect people to buy CDs when they are struggling to live due to lack of money. Others will say music in the present is not as good as it used to be before when people actually used to pay for it. You wouldn'tpay for something that is not worth buying, right? In addition, a person might only like one song out of a whole CD which may contain 15 songs; they wouldn't want to pay for 15 songs when they only wanted one of them.
Just like all arguments there is a negative side... the quality may not be as good as the original so many people will rather pay for it and get a high quality recording compared to getting it for free and
listening to a bad quality song.
This is probably a negative factor which will scare a lot of people and prevent illegal downloading; illegal file sharing websites contain deadly viruses that can hack into your bank details when you are shopping online.
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