Need some help on why downloading MP3's is illegal?

Question

According the the Personal Property Law Many reasons to support this .

Answer 1

The composer, singer, producers and others do not get a cent from downloaded mp3 music. If it were to become "legal" why would composers, producers bother to make new music, they would get zero for them (nearly all music is available for download on P2P sites which btw is illegal)....governement don't collect a penny either.!

Answer 2

The current legal reasoning (I am just stating, not debating) is that copying an MP3 file without paying for it is cheating the creators of that file out of the money they are owned in royalties. It is a thing called "Copyright Laws". To date, the courts have upheld that downloading is a violation of those laws.

The files are NOT covered under Personal Property laws, because they are not your property. When you purchase music, you only purchase the right to listen to the music, not to distribute it to others. So it is not your Personal Property. Also, since they person distributing the music is giving you a copy, and not their original (they shall have the music and can continue to use it), it is not cover by "Final Disposal" laws (which are what allow libraries to provide material for free).

Again, I'm just stating the current argument - not endorsing or debating.

Answer 3

According to the RIAA, it is not like recording a song from the radio and not like taping/recording a TV show. The problem comes in when many, many people download the same song/album (often before the cd is in the store). Unlike the examples above, mp3s are shared with no benefit to the artists/production monetarily.

Answer 4

you download MP3'S is illegal because you have to paid money when you download them , you download not pay money is illegal