Should people
who download music/movies illegally be punished?
Introduction:
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?
I BBA B
Suraj Bagewadi- 16SJCCB123
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!
I
BBA ‘B’
Taaha
Syed- 16SJCCB118
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