| To Share or Not to Share? An artist has the right to profit from their work, therefore they have the right to sell their work to those who choose to purchase the merchandise. A radio station is usually granted permission in some form to promote the artists music on the air waves. The radio station profits from playing the music. As a listener, one is not charged to listen to the radio, it is free to listen to the music. If a friend buys an album and allows a friend to listen to the album, even hold the album in their possession, there is no fee required to listen to the music. The listener of the music has not profited nor infringed on the artist's rights. To share music is not a crime! P2P is file sharing! The only people that should be prosecuted are the ones who profit monetarily from the sale of the music. If P2P (file sharing) is illegal then the internet and computers should be outlawed because we are all guilty of sharing some form of file in today's modern technological society! Every time you load a web page you're sharing a file. Tracking my computer should be illegal, it is my personal computer!! |
