It's Like Stealing Music From a Baby

Everyone knows that the best things in life are free, so why would it be any different concerning music? It's not. People want to obtain their music in the cheapest way possible and over the past decade, technology has made that possible. Downloading, or rather stealing music has become an increasingly more common theme among internet users. 

While technology has made music more accessible to the public, it has done so at the industries expense. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, downloading free music from the internet has officially become the number one way of obtaining music ("Weighty words: the," 2007). That can only mean one thing - the depletion of CD sales. Is this fair? Is this morally and ethically correct? America is essentially robbing the music industry of what should be their hard earned cash thanks to technology. This has given rise to many questions of whether the rapid expansion of technology has been beneficial or harmful to the music industry. I would like to think it has done both.




Weighty words: the future of e-books, part 1. (2007, January 18). Retrieved from http://statastic.com/category/music/