Music Piracy is Stealing by Scott Eberle February 21, 2007

Most people would never steal, whether it is shop lifting or stealing money. Why then do people illegally download music? It is stealing, is it not? When you illegally download music you not only steal from the artist, but you take money from every person that helped make the song or album. There are many people behind the scenes when making a song or album, there are the people who work in the recording booths, the people who make the CD’s and the people that sell the CD’s in stores. When you don’t buy CD’s from stores it causes the store to go out of business, when the store goes out of business, and the artist sells less copies which makes the artist place a smaller order to the CD manufacturing business. This process goes on and on, and music stores go out of business, and the companies that help make CD’s have to lay people off. Aside from the illegal part of illegal downloading you also must open your computer to the internet, with no way of checking the files you download until it is too late, you could download spy ware or a virus, which can destroy your computer files to the point where you might lose everything you have on it, including your illegally downloaded music.