Free Media
Everyone has done it. It is part of the computer age; downloading. Its fast, it’s easy, and best of all, it’s free. Well, free in the sense that you don’t have to pay for that particular item you are acquiring over the internet. But there are always those other fees; internet cable bill is the big one because there is no way you’ll be able to download all those files you want with dialup and keep your sanity! So how does all of this fall into the category of the law; if it’s that easy and its right there for us to do, then why is it illegal? It was such a great thing when it first happened, but I guess all great things come to an end.
When you go to the store, you buy a CD, from that CD; many people are making profits, the artists, the record company, the packaging, shipping, and the selling company. So, now with this new technology available to everyone over the internet, it creates problems for all of these businesses, so laws are added to downloading. But its not all downloading, it is certain files that are illegal to download and the way those files have been acquired. You can go to almost any sight created for supporting computer software and somewhere on this sight; there will be a link to take you to download. But there are legal downloads, they are the 30-day trial, or the ‘15 uses, then you must buy a password’ type of programs. They are set out from the company, to promote their product, in a legal way.
The other way of downloading, the illegal way, is very much different. There is no promotional sight that you go too in your search for a program. There is no, driving to ‘Best Buy’ to pick up the latest album out. It is much different. There are tw...
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...ade that much of an impact on the stores? Maybe free media in general has, but mostly just because of the music. Movies and programs are still much to complicated to download and use for the normal person. There is a lot to understand about it and there are many precautions to take to avoid the law. That is why people still buy movies on DVD in the store. That is a lot of work, patience, time, and money put into downloading a movie for free, which ended up costing over $250. I’ve spent many summers learning about this, and trying to understand how to work around all of the errors that are quite normal to encounter when using this free media. It is very time consuming and it takes a lot of patients.
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