1. What is your personal opinion towards file sharing? Is it right or wrong? Please explain.
As mentioned earlier in the post, almost everyone has downloaded something off of the internet. I mean, who hasn't? At first, I thought that downloading off of the internet was okay since one of my family friends said so... I was very young then, I did not know that you had to buy the music. Downloading music is like a crime that I did not intend to do. Sometimes I hear people say "Since everyone is doing it, they might as well just make it legal." but when you really think about it, that is the way that musicians make money. If they don't have money, they wouldn't be able to make music anymore. So that means that no one would be able to download it off of the internet. I think that file sharing is wrong because we are basically cheating the artists that made the art/song/movie. So, the next time that you share files again, think about it first; is it going to make the artist happy if they found out? What would even be worse is that if you're sharing files and it's from one of your favourite artist.
2. If you produced your own piece of art/ song/ movie, would you hold the same opinion?
I would not be surprised that people are doing it but if anything, I would be really upset about this. I feel that I have been cheated on, I would probably be just as upset and angry as the artists who have been working hard to produce such thing. People do not put themselves in the artists position so they do it anyway. they do not think about how upsetting it is to be working hard one something and someone decides to rip it off of you. After reading this blog, and after I have thought things through, I have come to a realization that piracy needs to end, if it does not, it could be possible for you to go to jail in the future. STOP IT.
3. Do you feel it is morally acceptable to to download copyrighted material if it is only intended for personal use?
I feel that it is acceptable because you are keeping it to yourself. You are not sharing it with anyone else. However, it is wrong because you are still copying. Just because you are the only one that knows you downloaded it, does not make it any better. You are still committing the crime. Some people know that they can get fined for this, and yet they still do it. Coming from a person that has listened to some people's opinions on this topic, I think that people download music from the internet because they can not afford the music. Some people just have so much passion for art and music, but they cannot afford to purchase it. I partly believe that it is wrong and right to download off of the internet.
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