My Reflection

Well the end of my project is here and I have learned allot about music artists and internet piracy and how they are still making profit.As we already know, Bands make allot of money and illegal downloading takes away from that. It is obvious that money is being lost due to internet piracy but most people would not think that it would really take as much money out that It already does. Between 2000 and 2006 illegal downloading has accounted for 23% loss of profit. That is nearly a quarter of their total profit. It is true that they still generate profit because of merchandise sales but that is not the point. If they are going to sit there and work to make the music, they should get profit for it. It should be their choice as to weather or not people have to pay for their music, not "the consumer".During my research I found the drummer from Metallica was also upset at the situation (Internet Piracy). He even took Napster (a file sharing website a.k.a. illegal downloading) to court. The head of Napster said that if people listen to the music offline then they would but the albums but I disagree with this because if people can get it for free offline then they are going to keep it that way and just download it.I brought up my idea in an earlier post that the music industry should have find a way for blank Cd's to have some profit generating for them. Because if people are going to keep illegally downloading music offline then they should make some money for the sale of blank Cd's. then they are at least generating some profit off of it. Some agencies are also taking action against internet downloadingers. It is called the three strikes regime. If people are caught illegally downloading music offline then they are suspended from their internet privileges. If they are caught doing it more then three times then they will permanently lose their privileges. Internet companies have to enforce this also and if they are caught not enforcing this then they too will be penalized. So this is a lose lose situation for everybody if they do the wrong thing so they should just the right thing. It will make life easier for everybody, especially the artist that created it because then they will get profit off of it.Plus this is a bad situation becaue like i said earlier that if you get caught using illegal sites more than few times you could get in trouble like losing your internet privliges. But what soe people don't know is that you can also go to jail if you continue to dissobey these rules.

So next time you or somebody you know is about to illegally download music offline maybe you should reconsider what you are about to do after reading my reports. I hope that It helped make people realize what they are doing wrong and that it does matter if they do or not. Not just because it is the right thing to do but because it effects peoples' work. Remember, it is stealing. If you wouldn't steal something tat somebody made then why would you steal some one's music(their project).