Comments on: Music Piracy still on despite the popularity of iTunes

By: Kelly Bauer

Kelly Bauer — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:43:00 +0000

Maybe people don’t realize this, but music is copyrighted and considered intellectual property. So stealing it is always liable to a civil suit. Music is not everyone’s property because along with a copyright you have sole ownership of whatever you created, in this case music, for your lifetime plus 70 years. So after that it can leagally enter public domain, like the internet, but before that it does not. This should be illegal because artists are putting their blood, sweat, and tears into their music and people just make a copy without appreciating what the creator did by paying a fee for it. And if music should be free because it helps people find who they are, then shouldn’t self-help books be free too then?

By: john sullivan

john sullivan — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:31:57 +0000

I totally agree with the above statement… I also think its wrong they will search through kids music to have them pay a fine. Music should be free because it gets people motivated and helps them find what kind of person they are. I’m pretty sure paying .99 to listen to a song is a little worse than paying nothing.

By: Ben Bradley

Ben Bradley — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:57:08 +0000

Im a student at highschool and i deeply respect where the law is comeing from but the majority of the public is deffinatly likely to ignor anything the law gives against the illeagal downloading…why not just give up on trialing to ensure downloading be put to a stop? In my opinion it wont ever be and it shouldnt be attempted to over and over again, it takes time and money that isnt worth it. It also leaves families almost without anything.