Is Music Piracy Stealing?
To most of the people, this question’s answer is very simple and sole one word: ‘yes’. But considering it as an illegal action is something we don’t want to think about.
Downloading music or films for free began almost 10 years ago and since then, it has been a problem for both musicians&producers and governments. There are several reasons for people to download for free and i think these reasons are pretty considerable. These may be the high price of the albums or will to listen one song instead of the whole album.
Governments try to prevent people downloading music or films for free because they know the musicians don’t really get paid for what they did. They also try to enliven the authorized music endustry because, day by day, with the increasing numbers of pirates and sellers on the street, music endustry slowly collapsed and musicians decided not to make anymore albums. In more developed countries, downloading is getting illegal due to these problems and you even have to pay for one song.
In my opinion, at this age, downloading shouldn’t be illegal. Getting imprisoned for downloading, hopefully not in our country, is just ridiculous. It may not be legal but we should listen to whatever we want and whenever we want.
October 14th, 2008 at 7:49 am
But then if you can acknowledge that the effects of music piracy are to the detriment of the music industry and artists, isn’t it only logical that it should be illegal and punishable? As you have said yourself artists suffer financially- is it fair that they create something only to have other people ’steal’ it- but then again you didn’t say anything about fairness did you?
October 14th, 2008 at 8:22 am
I think artists are also aware of this, i mean they understood people will prefer downloading instead of buying the album. We hear there were albums which sold millions of copies worldwide. This era is over and artists know it, so they should focus on giving concerts which is more profitable. And i think punishing people is not a good thing to do, maybe there should be some preview versions of songs on the Net, and if you like it maybe you will pay and buy it.