Blog 9

File Sharing

• topic of much debate, only became more important in the twentieth century.

• dicussion regarding stealing-distinction between tangebil objects and music or movie files

• the service providers essentially makes money by supplying the means to download such files and no legal cases exist between the artist and the supplier only between those who have essentially paid for something, the providers should be paying the royalty fees to the artist that the material is 'stolen' from as expressed by Mamo.

• so who are the villians? the ones supplying the means to 'steal' or the actual person who 'steals'- another example of something like this is drug smuggling , the mules are the ones who get caught and suffer severly, not the supplier...mmmm makes you ponder

those thoughts aside majority of the class said they do or have illegally downloaded files off the web, most once again did not feel ethically impuned for downloading music from someone who has millions of dollars in their bank account. the real theives are the recording companies and the artist. fair enough the artist should be rewarded for what they have made, however should make a normal salery like any other. and i realize that they would be like who gets the money from their record sales. why not make it really cheap and allow the service providers pay for the time you spend in the studio, a set fee, and not charge for the music , and only charge for the cost of service... i realize the idea is not full proof but its a start..

another discussion was brought up in the tutorial.. the idea of bands embracing the use of programs that allow music to be downloaded. bands like the artic monkeys used myspace to promote themselves, radiohead really stuck it to the man by not using a record company and selling their albums over the net for what the consumer deamed it worth and essentially cut out the middle man and made more money even though the album sold for less in dollars.... and i believe that bands like that turn something essentially bad for their business into something good. I SALUTE YOU RADIOHEAD.

in conclusion however Muir gave valuable advice... is the free and illegal downloading of files worth the fine or jail time that would be punishment if caught.... there are other ways to stick it to the man....