Views On Piracy

     During the past few classes we have been creating our own podcast to demonstrate our understanding of what piracy and copyright laws are. Our group acted like we were a radio show and we had three different special guests on our show. We had country music stars Carrie Underwood and Scotty McCreery, and then we also found a lady who got in trouble for stealing someone’s music illegally. When we were creating our podcast we were making sure that we did not take anything from the computer illegally. We did not take anyone’s work that was created previously. We did use Picnik to edit our picture, but it was our picture so there was nothing wrong with it.

     Have you ever wondered if downloading music was wrong? Well, here is your answer; downloading music is not wrong if you buy it or if you get permission from the artist who created the music. However, if you do not get permission or buy it, then it is wrong, because you are taking money from the artist that they have earned. Have you heard of copyright laws? If then, you know why they exist and why we should follow them. I think that people should follow the laws because, if you think about it, we are taking money away from the people who produced the music. If we start paying more for the music and not just downloading it the artists would make more money to possibly produce new music. I think that piracy is so prevalent in our society today because people do not know how big the consequences are if they are caught and what we are really doing when we take music from an artist.

     I don’t think people have thought about how they would feel if they made something and people took it without permission. I am sure that many people would not like this done to them and I know if I were the artist I would not like it. I know that I would be upset because we put a lot of time in making our podcast and tried really hard to make it unique. After making our podcast I now understand how the music artists feel when people take and “steal” their music.