Keep Sharing as the Debate on essays

Keep Sharing as the Debate on essays There is a war raging throughout the music industry right now. Unfortunately it is not about which big star can sell the most records by producing the best music. Instead, this battle doesnt really involve any big names at all. It is in fact, all about the little guy, the consumer, and more specifically the downloader. You know, the one who sits in front of his computer all day and night swapping files and downloading tracks from numerous websites. These people have been around for a lot longer than many of us realize. However it was very difficult to find music five or ten years ago. Only with the accessibility and ease of interface of sites such as Napster, Kazaa, and Morpheus did their numbers increase to a level that caused concern with many artists as well as the Record Industry Association of America. These parties were concerned that this boom of Peer-to-Peer file sharing was drastically reducing their profits and made a push to have these sites shut down and their users stopp ed, or at least made to pay for their use. They feel these sites are illegal and immoral. While the legal matters pertaining to this case are unclear and well beyond the realm of my understanding, I can speak to the morality of this issue and feel very strongly that file sharing should remain entirely legal, and that file sharing, with the exception of a small percentage of the people that use it, is very moral indeed. Not to mention the fact that it actually helps more artists, more often than it hinders them. File sharing may actually help the music industry by fostering the natural selection of the best artists while forcing the fake and untalented musicians out of the business. This whole debacle could have been avoided if the music industry would have embrace the concept of file sharing and used it as another tool to distribute their product. Instead, they chose to ignore it, either out of fear or sheer ignorance and it has now feste...