One of the big debates going on at the moment is the subject of illegal downloading. The latest suggestion which has come out of the houses of parliament is that anyone in the UK caught downloading illegal music, films etc will have their internet limited and even banned.
However, I dont think this is right. First of all I believe that singers and bands do not lose out as much as music labels and the individuals lead us to think they are. This is because, in my opinion (and the opinion of many others I have spoken to) if I hear a song I like and if I were to download other songs by the same singer and like it, then I would go out and buy the album. So, by having the facility to download the songs for free you are encouraging listeners to find out more about the singer/band, thus making it more likely for them to go out and buy the cd!
Also, with software like Limewire, can you technically class it as illegally downloading? The reason I say this is because what the users are merely doing is file sharing. If file sharing is classed at illegal than surely sites such as Facebook and Myspace are illegal, as on these sites you can share pictures and videos, which is exactly what you do on Limewire.
I can kind of see their point of view, but why spend all that money on tracking illegal downloaders just so rich celebrities can get some more money? Wouldn't the money spent tracking downloads be more suitably used to track paedophiles online more, or simply to the emergency services or the nhs?
Haven't the government got better things to do with their time than making sure celebrities and music labels get more money? Obviously not!
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Good idea for a comment piece - punchily written too. Nice links though the latter ones are a bit vague and don't work.
It might have been good to back up your argument with stats - is there research out there that shows that people still buy CDs after downloading?
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