Illegal Songs and Your iPod
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Have you ever thought how many songs on your iPod have been obtained illegally? Did you get a CD from a friend for your iPod? Did they download it illegally? Well, a study shows that at least half of your songs on illegally obtained:
The average digital music player carries 1,770 songs, meaning that 48 per cent of the collection is copied illegally. The proportion of illegally downloaded tracks rises to 61 per cent among 14 to 17-year-olds. In addition, 14 per cent of CDs (one in seven) in a young person’s collection are copied.
The real question that people are starting to ask is “how can we stop this from happening?” Most students feel that they will never be caught and that the threats are just there to attempt to scare people into not downloading music. Some Universities, such as the University of Arizona and cooperating with law enforcement officers to help make that threat a reality.
In early March, news broke of a subpoena sent to the UA to release the names of four students caught illegally downloading music.
Link: Arizona Daily Wildcat
I for one am all for stopping the students who are stupid enough to download music using the school’s internet. We are forced to register our computers and are told that if we do anything illegal our internet will be taken away.
Other schools are going as far as pulling financial aid from students who are caught illegally downloading music.
What do you think? Should downloading music be legal, or are you all for punishing those who break the law?
Comments welcome,
Justin Capasso
3 Comments
George
June 16th, 2008
at 8:35am
I hate the music industry for all the anal stuff they’ve been doing lately. It’s so stupid. If I was a college kid, I would be angry. I don’t listen to much music, but I’ll tell you, todays music is very disposable. Why would I buy something for an eternity when its going to be out of date in a week?
spokenword
June 16th, 2008
at 8:57pm
I once read somewhere that the majority of people who download music illegally have no intentions of every buying the music, so even if they couldn’t download the music illegally, they would never go out to the stores and by it. So, why not download the music, them preventing users from downloading music, will not theoretically increase sells.
Charles McNamee
July 4th, 2008
at 6:56pm
Justin, let’s say you own a restaraunt (sp) where you sweat and slave to make wonderful dishes that customers eat. If a customer came in to just sit at a table and select a few dishes and consumed them, then just took off, saying he just wanted them for a taste test and not to purchase, would you feel a bit robbed? Now, I’m not saying all music is worthy of being “slaved over”, because frankly, some of it sounds like trash. Some musicians, not well known have cut tracks just to get their financial foot in the door. It’s wrong to steal from them. Float a few bucks and pay for the music. Just my 2 cents.