The piracy of music, movies and other forms of copyright material is a major debate within our global environment. Many people do not see the sharing of these files as stealing for whatever reason. Person to person file sharing is in fact the same as stealing. It happens to be stealing that can be done from the comfort of any persons home.
The ease at which files can be shared is at the heart of the problem. Everyday technology gets better and faster. This in turn makes for ethical problems due to governments inability to keep up with technology. The process of civil and legal offences is so sporadic that it is no wonder people do not adhere to the laws that are in place.
It has been proven that the sharing of pirated material directly effects these industries. As person to person file sharing of movies increases theater admissions, DVD rentals and purchases rapidly decrease. As more and more people begin to steal these materials we will find these industries fall and thus destroy the mediums we need so bad. This will in turn cause the government to have to waste time on trying its hardest to legislate these actions. If they are unable to do so we can assume there will be overbearing sentences for offenders and cause much the same issue we see today from the drug sentences of the 1980's War on Drugs.
The solution lies with the consumers. There must be a level of responsibility and ethical process involved with online use. Just because we can do something easily does not mean we should.
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Piracy accounts for 95 percent of global music downloads
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