Living in the 21st century with a whole new line of technology in electronics, that we have easily adapted to, has caused us to rely more and more on certain programs that gives us the service that we are in demand of. Since the innovation of mp3s everyone has been relying on programs such as Limewire and Ares to get their desired songs for the price of nothing.
How do you feel about this practice of downloading anything you want for free?
I feel many emotions when it comes to the topic of downloading anything you want for free. I know for a fact that many people choose to use Limewire to download all their songs because I'm one of those people. I know that music downloading for free is wrong because it doesn't allow the artist's albums to be bought. For example if everyone were to download Alicia Key's whole album from Limewire for free then she wouldn't be able to gain profit from her albums that are being sold in stores. But from a different perspective if peope were to download songs for free it's another way for the artists to deliver their music to consumers because not all consumers have the money to purchase their cds. Although it's unfair to the artist, purchasing songs online is unfair to consumers. Companies such as Itunes sell songs for about $1 each, which is, personally unreasonable and waste of money. $1 may not seem like alot but, in our society alot of people listen to music and if we were to purchase a playlist consisting of even just 200 songs (which honestly is not alot of songs) then we would be spending $200 just to listen to approximatly 2 hours of music. Without programs like Limewire that gives us music for free I honestly believe that not alot of people would interact with the media. Downloading music, videos, and games for free through file sharing programs has both it's pros and cons, it all depends on your ethical behaviour towards them.