Falk In Class Writing #6

Part 1     

     Music on ITunes used to be only 99 cents a few years ago, but now it has gone up to $1.29 for just one song.  There are many different sites for people to download music for free, which is illegal.  Most either do music piracy or have done it, because to pay $1.29 a song is just too much.  It is really easy to download music illegally, because there are different sites someone could use and there isn’t any kind of block on these sites.  My opinion is that music piracy is alright, because I used to do it just because I didn’t have the money to buy songs I wanted to listen to.  People shouldn’t have to pay that much just so they can listen to a song.  I don’t do it anymore because I found an application that is only $10 a month to download and listen to any song I want at any time.

Part 2

     I read the How to Save the Music Business by Paul McGuinness.  The author tried to explain to readers that music piracy is becoming unbelievably popular and it has started to ruin the music industry.  Artists work hard to make their music, so they want something for their hard work and it wouldn’t be right for them just to allow anyone to download their music.  The music industries also provide many jobs, and as music piracy increases, more jobs are lost.  The author is against music piracy, and is doing what he can to get more people aware of how bad it can be.  The author states that from 2006-2009 “music industry revenues dropped from $25 billion to $16 billion.”  The author described his fix to the music piracy problem, and described it as the music company would be included in a broadband bill that way a whole family could download whatever kind of music.