“Napster Got Busted. Are You Next?” is an article about the new laws that are trying to be put into place to try and prevent illegal downloads of music and movies. The new protocol would allow internet providers to give out your name, address and phone numbers to the recording companies whose music you are illegally downloading. They have also created “Robots” which attach to files to see what you have been sharing or downloading. However these are not perfect. For one it attached to a file called Harry Potter, which was nothing more than a book report.
I think people should get in trouble for illegally downloading media because they are breaking the law. The people who make these albums or movies should get paid for their work and they won’t get fairly paid if people continuously are downloading them for free. However, it is just a song or two, or maybe a movie. There are ways to get these things that aren’t illegal. For one, we could just listen to the music on YouTube and record it on our phones; however we take the effort to get the better version. I think that downloading music shows people that our generation is smart. We can figure out how to get the things we won’t without spending money, so parents should be thankful.
I don’t listen to a lot of music but when I do it is usually Pandora or YouTube. I don’t actually own a lot of music. If I was a musician I would not want people to download my music for free, however I know that it would happen and no matter how many laws or regulations they put into place there will always be someone to go around them. Musicians also make money from concerts, merchandise, selling their music to cites like Pandora and YouTube. In my opinion the government needs to lay off on this stuff. Sending “Robots” into our files online is just plain rude!
Jammie Thomas –Rassett has been ordered by the court to pay $1.5 million to the RIAA for 24 illegally downloaded songs. This is the 3rd jury that has seen this case. Thomas-Rassett has stated that she kept fighting simply because she doesn’t have the money. Although the initial offer to drop the case was only $5,000 and more recently it was a donation of $25,000 to any music charity. The governments plan for the future is to stop pirated music for good, which I don’t think will ever happen. If someone who is a fan of pirated music read this, it would probably slow them down for a bit. However I don’t think it will stop them entirely. The people who illegally download their music don’t think that it’s a bad idea, so they would most likely just shrug it off and move on.
In the article Napster, they tells us about the new ways they are trying to stop the illegal downloads of music. For one, internet providers now have the right to give your name, address and phone number to the RIAA if expected of illegally downloading music. They are also allowed to attach “Robots” to the files that are exchanged over the internet to monitor what kinds of files are being shared. However these methods are flawed because not all internet providers are willing do to such things, and not all files that robots attach to are something important, they might just be a research paper for example. In the case of Jammie Thomas-Rassett, she was order to pay $1.5 million dollars for 24 illegally downloaded songs. Thomas-Rassett’s case has seen 3 juries and she still refused to pay thing absence amount of money, even though the first offer was to drop the case for just $5,000.
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