Summary:
The ethical imlications of downloading music off the Internet are discussed. This essay considers it stealing, and the many ways it harms those in the music industry are discussed.
What's Wrong? Everyone is Doing it
Ever since 18-year-old Shawn Fanning created Napster in his Northeastern University dorm room in 1999, downloading and sharing music online has become one of the most popular things to do on the Internet today. But why wouldn't it? Getting all your favorite songs from all your favorite artists for free, who wouldn't want to start sharing music? The answer to that question are the people who feel that stealing from the music industry is not morally right, because that is exactly what every person who shares music is doing. People who download music think it's something they can get away with but now it might be payback time to a lot of those people.
The record industries says that on an average about 165 million song files are traded through university.....
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