im doing a persuasive speech and i needed a solution to combat the stiff penatlies of downloading music?

Question

I need help. My question is about what are some measures that need to be taken towards the stiff penalties of downloading music off the internet being that many people do it like its no big deal and still get sued. And second how would you monitor people to prevent people that are wrongfully accused of downloading?

Answer 1

Its only no big deal if you are not the singer losing money on down loaded music.

Answer 2

If you are down loading music then you are taking money from the artists that created that music. If you owned a store and people were stealing your merchandise, you would go broke. Well, it's the same thing. This is why, it costs so much to see a concert or buy a CD now a days. The artists and record companies are going to make there money some how. So, now honest people such as myself are now the ones really getting screwed. So, to all that are stealing the music I say "Thanks." In that store that you own you would raise prices so you wouldn't go broke right. So again "Thanks a lot all you cheap people out there, that can't just be human and pay for what you get."

Answer 3

shyNquiet:

I WISH they'd investiage the cases thoroughly, but they do not.

Thanks to dirty politicians in bed with the RIAA lawyers (Recording Industry Assn of America), they can now issue a bench warrant without even having to get a judges approval.

THAT means that the RIAA can phish your internet IP address on a P2p. Once they get your IP address, they send a demand letter to your ISP (Cox, Comcast, etc) internet service provider, and in return, they will get your information. Well, maybe not YOUR information, but whoever owns the cable service will be the one accused.

When you get a letter, they state to claim what was on your computer.

Already HUNDREDS of people have been wrongfully accused. See link below for one of many, many examples.

Here's another way - let's say that your neighbor has an unsecured wireless internet connection and you can tap in with your wireless enabled laptop. You can share all you want without him even knowing you're using his connection, and when the RIAA sends a demand letter to the "accused IP address", HE will foot the bill for his 200 songs at $2500 each. "But they'll settle today for $35,000 or see you in court".

The RIAA, according to the law, does NOT have to monitor anything EXCEPT the offending ISP. But that doesn't mean that a neighbor isn't breaking in. Or that a minor wasn't doing it. Or a grandkid went to grandma's house to download music.

If you want to crack down on illegal downloads, make music available at a price where it isn't worth it to download illegally.

The answer in my opinion is, since the "starving artists" are only making a quarter to split between 5 members (oooh, a gumball for EVERYONE!) and the rest of your $15.00 CD goes to lawyers, producers, and the higherups, that maybe the distribution model of compact discs needs to change.

82% of artists will never see royalties from their albums and over 96% will never get a dime from iTunes, or any of the subscription services that distribute their music.

The artists aren't losing anything from CD sales. They gain 98% of their income through touring. If you want to support your artists, go to their show and buy a T-shirt.

Courtney Love did an incredible expose on the Recording Industry in an article for Salon Magazine. I don't personally care for Courtney Love's music, but her logic and firsthand experience with the RIAA is a priceless piece of journalism that I would respectfully encourage you to read.

You can read that here:
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html

Answer 4

I think that when people are born they should be implanted with soundproof plexiglas boxes around their ears and be made to pay a fee to use their ears, this way, the record companies can be sure that no one will hear "their" music for free.

Seriously, it is not the people's responsibility to make sure that record companies have a viable business model in light of new technology.

The best option is for the RIAA to stop wasting all of their money on lawsuits, and use that money to develop and implement a viable business model.

Answer 5

wrongfully accused ?I'm sure before kids are convicted, all measure of investigations are used to make sure its them. You need to go to one of those free Lawyer advice site for an answer to this. No one can come up with a BS defense like lawyers. With keystroke cadence tech ,investigator can tell who was typing when any downloads occured..just kidding... maybe=D
Anyways ,,who cares about money hungry record company formulated music. Its for the braindead consumers. Discover new music from people who are in it for the music. Soundclick.com ..whatever. Learn to make your own music .Get fruityloops .. PEACE