Monday, March 21, 2011

Downloading Music

I have never downloaded music from the Internet. I think it is wrong and wouldn't do it even if I had the option to. But, I know people who do and it seems to me that they do it just because they can and most don't realize it's so bad. I am content with having CD's and listening to them legally, however I must confess I have done it illegally without knowing it was wrong. It's so easy to barrow a CD from a friend and clam it for a week or so and rip the music to your computer and then return the CD when you are done and you will have that music forever. Once I found out that it was illegal to do that unless you own the CD and make a copy for your own benefit, I haven't done it since and I admit that it's not easy to do something that is so easy to get away with. Since so many people don't know how bad it is they will willingly lend their music to friends. Thinking about the music industry, artists need fans to not just have their music but personally buy it from the store because that's now they can make money. So many people share music these days, it would be interesting to see how many people actually own all the music they have on their MP3 player or iPod or even on their computer. This is just one area that the law has trouble containing hold of and since it is so easy to do things illegally with music I don't have a doubt that they let thousands of people go without being punished for having music illegally and never paying the artist for creating a masterpiece.

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