In-Class Writing #6

My personal experience with music piracy is that I don't download music illegally, due to not wanting to rip off some of my favorite bands that I respect when I have money to spare. My understanding of music piracy is that through the Internet, people would download music illegally for free knowing that it wouldn't be likely for them to get caught. There are two widely shared opinions about the topic of music piracy:  1. Music piracy is taking money out of musicians' pockets and leave them with little reward for all of the hard work and dedications that they make to recording their music. 2. Music piracy helps spread music out to people who can't afford music. My opinion is that I support what effects that music piracy brings which is the spread of music that won't likely be heard on the radio or place in the top 40 charts.

The article that I read is "The Age of Music Piracy is Officially Over." The exigence of the article was to explain to readers that music piracy isn't necessary anymore due to songs being incredibly cheap. The author's purpose is to show the readers why music piracy is unnecessary and the author's position detracts music piracy as a way to obtain music. The support that the author provides for his position is that audiophiles should go back to vinyl if they hate the sound of digital music if they want good sound quality and that downloading songs illegally takes money out of the music industry used to produce good quality music. This article confronts my opinion on music piracy in that the articles is stating that music piracy takes money from the music industry but I think that music piracy more money to be gain through more people attending concerts and purchase music of the bands that they found respect for.