Blog 34 "Its Our Illegal Right"

The article I read was called, “It’s Our Illegal Right” by Pembe Beingi.  The article was about illegally downloading music from the internet without paying for it.  The author’s argument was that there are so many other ways people get music for free that there is no need for these laws in the first place.  There are multiple programs that you can download for free that allow you to search through other peoples music libraries.  You are then able to pick out songs you want and download them.  It’s also just as easy to take music from a friend’s computer, put it on a flash drive and then copy that music back to your computer.  I’m sure there are other methods that I don’t even know about.  He talked about how the actual artist makes so little money off these songs that it doesn’t really even affect them.  Most of their wealth comes from endorsements and concerts.  I agree with the points this author is making.  He also made a point that I liked when he talked about how society might be moving faster than the record companies.  We’ve figured out how to get all these songs for free and they haven't figured out how to stop it.  Maybe they should spend more time trying to figure out how to stop this if they are that concerned.  I think that this article was timely and relevant because I’m sure almost everyone has illegally gotten music without paying for it.