Music Mania Downlads

Ah, the great debate of pirating. Everything from music and games to full operating systems such as Microsoft's Windows Vista. With the fall of the popular semi private torrent tracker Demonoid.com many found pirating to die out in their lives as alternatives such as the now the largest torrent tracker and website in the world "The Pirate Bay". Personally I have never seen the issue in pirating as I am under the belief that one persons choice to share what they own (for example a music album that was legally bought) it is for all to download and use. As long as the items/information being shared were obtained legally why could the legal owner not share the joy he/she experienced with all the world using the greatest and largest world wide network known as the world wide web. Unfortunatly after years of so called "legal file sharing" I have become desonsitized to the negativity involved in the loss of the information's creator and download without second thought.



The though of downloading anything digital for free is enough to entice anyone into commiting this easy to execute crime without seeing a negative side espcially when one takes into account the costs of such widely used programs such as Adobe Photoshop CS3 or Illustrator the offer becomes even more attractive.

To conclude I fell that Peer-to-peer File sharing should not be illegal as long as the files being shared were legally aquiried in the first place but then the issue becomes the moderation of the billions of files in circulation thus this choice boils down to personal opinion leaving the topic up in the air.