Music Club Activity #1

[laynie.livejournal.com]

Hey Music Club Members! It's time to have a discussion/debate. It's no secret that in the past 5 or 6 years, the music industry has experienced a sharp downturn, mostly due to peer-to-peer file sharing programs such as Napster. The music industry's largest target market (teens and young adults) have turned to the internet for their music needs, where songs can be downloaded for free. After numerous lawsuits, programs such as ITunes have popped up...where songs can be purchased for a small fee. However, illegal music downloading still continues.

So here's the question: Do you think it's wrong to illegally download music, and why? Do you download any music, legally (ex. ITunes), or illegally (ex. peer-to-peer filesharing programs)?

Note: Everyone's opinions WILL be respected here. And there are good points to be made for both sides of this issue.

Brooke / Gryffindor

Comments

[laynie.livejournal.com]

Wow, I *completely* agree with you. (I'm going to make a post giving my opinion and the basic facts, so I won't go into it all here.)

And I used to tape songs off the radio, back in the day. I asked one of my teachers about that one time and he said that it didn't prove to be a big problem for the industry because it was more difficult to tape the entire song (sometimes DJ's talk over the intros, or they cut the songs short), it was a big hassle (having to wait for the song, or editing what you recorded), and the songs weren't "at your fingertips" like they are now with downloading programs. Really, I think that tape recorders didn't affect music sales...and that's why nobody really made a fuss about it. But downloading programs have...and that's why we're seeing this uproar.