Piracy

There are many views regarding a particular issue, and one of them will be on the issue "Piracy".

I know most of the us would follow the same trend, arguing that piracy violates the intellectual property right. Mp3-encoded song album, top-hit songs, latest movies and etc, which can be found on the net and available for downloading, seriously offend the law of protecting intellectual property rights. Well, I would like to share some ideas from an article, where its writer is in the defense of piracy.

He claims that the main reason why consumers buy genuine CDs is because of the marketing hype. This hype is described as the strategy of business to lure consumers to buy an entire album just because of one song that most music fans are fascinating about in the album. The dictates of copyright law are one thing. But ethically there is nothing that says you can't keep a single song you like on your hard drive when your only alternative is to buy a whole CD of junk just for that one track. With the higher price as compared to genuine collection, he argues that it is wise to download the favourite songs or movies from the net, which enables us to choose specifically what we want, plus its relatively lower price(most of the time free of charge).

He also strengthens his stand by stating the recording industry is trying to make decent chunk of money by separating people from their hard-earned dollars. People are just conceived by the marketing hype. He also claims that the modern U.S economy is built on a mountain of consumer debt, with consumption kept artificially high by precisely this kind of marketing. Hence, he claims that piracy is a practical way to counter the marketing hype employed.

Very often, the latest movies are being posted on the net before the genuine recording are shown in the market. So, downloading those movies can be a way to cater to the impatience of some movie fanciers.

Therefore, supporting piracy actually better than supporting legal copy as the reasons stated above.