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Should people who download music/movies illegally be punished?

Introduction:

Nowadays when a movie or song is made and marketed, everyone involved in the process gets his/her monetary gain. Therefore if any of the content which is protected by the copyright law cannot be copied, reproduced or sold without the permission of the owner of that product. The Indian copyright law protects literary works, dramatic pieces, melodious works, artistic works, films and music recordings. But these days’ people don’t seem to follow this law at all. The internet being a boon to all of us, we misuse it and disrespect the artists whose works we download illegally.


View: Artists, Directors, Producers and every other person connected to the making their masterpieces put in a lifetime of hard work and dedication, It be A music recording, A documentary, A movie and others. Downloading all of these content is equivalent to stealing someone else’s property. Something that is made by using a lot of resources. Piracy directly contributes to the destruction of the business. It damages the entertainment companies and industries. This in turn leads to unemployment and causes a lot of harm to the economy. People who illegally download these products should be punished. The government should take it seriously and do its best to track down the people following this absurd trend and make the copyright law more effective. If a person can go to jail due to robbery, why shouldn’t a person who illegally downloads music and movies be punished?



Counterview:  Its common sense: taking a thing that you used to pay for is not virtuous for the people who created that thing. But when it comes to entertainment piracy, lots of folks—whether motivated by statistical inquisitiveness, forward-thinking vision or a desire to rationalize their own law-breaking—have argued that things aren’t quite so simple. Now, with the release of a new analysis of 16,000 European music consumers, those on the side of piracy, like myself have evidence to back us up. Specifically, the study found that legal purchases would be about 2 percent lower without illegal downloading available—meaning, yes, illegal downloads boost legal downloads. The positive effect of streaming was even larger. And of course, as the study’s authors do acknowledge, sales data are not the only reason music-industry professionals don’t like piracy. Conclusion: people who download pirated music/ movies mostly do so for tunes they wouldn’t have ever spent money on. Therefore, it should be my choice to pay for what I want and not for what I don’t want. I shouldn’t be legally bound to do so!


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Suraj Bagewadi- 16SJCCB123
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