Chris+McDonald

Writing 105 J Haynes**
 * Chris McDonald


 * __Unit 3 Proposal__

For the third unit essay I plan to elaborate on the topic of File sharing of music also known as Piracy. In today's society the music industry, consistant with producing music on in a variety of ways from itunes to cds, society seeks to find a way to make things easier. The process of file sharing is illegal and makes up for paying that 9.99 for a new music album and save the trip to the local record store. Many problems have came along with this process of obtaining music. Music production companies do not agree with this mainly because they are saying, "we created this to be brought, this is how we make our money,it's not fair!" But opposing that, people who download obviously do not want to pay any money for anything if there is an opportunity to get it free. The process of file sharing is illegal in today's society yet has many followers and many opposers. In doing some research,more specifically "fair use" and "first sale doctrine" are two that has history within court cases surrounding this topic. The scale of the issue of infringement seems to be a glodal issue because it does not only happen in the united states. Situations similar to these occur overseas in europe as well. So as far as "who" within this reasearch, the problem is global amongst production companies and people worldwide. The position that seems to have to most power are people who agree of file sharing and copyright infringment. A clear example of this is look at the past. This has been illegal for a good amount of time yet people continue to do this. So clearly no matter the fine, no matter if it is illegal, individuals still continue to do it.

What about paying 99c for a song like on itunes or other softwares? Is 99c enough for a song or should the entire album have to be bought like in the record store? If your going to talk about piracy, I saw a show on this subject and they talked alot about problems with piracy in China, Taiwan, Korea. A lot of bootleg music comes from that area. Chris G.

A lot of people complain that 99c is kind of a lot for one song and there are other places online that you can go to and purchase music for cheaper, but are those technically legal downloading? Or are they stealing music and selling it back to us? but if it is legal, its hard to know for sure how secure the sight is. i know of a lot of people who are very concerned about putting their credit cards online. so it makes me wonder; could internet insecurity/paranoia be the cause for illegal download? Moira K**