Cause And Effect Of Piracy In Frankenstein

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, she writes of a beast going against his creator. While created to better humanity, the beast goes on to destroy his creator life. Shelleys work provides an example of unintended consequences. Examples of advancement leading to unintended consequences can been seen throughout history. A recent example is the digitization of sources and music. Before the 1990’s, the music and books would have to be bought physically, but the creation of the internet has facilitated the buying and selling of media. Music and resources were not easy to access, but then came the intervention of the internet. In recent years digital sources and the streaming services have become popular, but the services have come with a handful …show more content…
Since the first appearance of digital music, piracy has been an issue. In 1999, when napster became the first peer to peer sharing service, the sales of downloads and CDs decreased significantly (Bender and Wang). People were in consternation with free access to music, so they stopped buying cd’s anf records. Soon after debates of whether or not these industries were leading to decrease in music purchases began. Since this cite did not require payment of any kind, the company did not pay the artist how’s music was being shared. This site was viewed as a easy way to get away with piracy, but even companies that have advertisements and payments find themselves being used for piracy. According to, MusicWatch,a market-research company, “in America the number of "streamrippers"--those who copy music from streaming services, including YouTube--rose by half to about 20m, between the end of 2013 and early last year” (Scales dropped; The music industry). The services facilitate the duplication of media but they are not entirely responsible for the increase in piracy. Technological advancements has further facilitated this problem: “Before the digital age, people had a difficult time duplicating media, but now anybody with a computer can duplicate media; “technology has aided the proliferation of digital piracy among computer users. Today, computers come packaged with CD burners and sufficient memory and speed to support the downloading and saving of music files (Bender and Wang). Today's technology has made extremely easy for people to take advantage of the abundance of files online. Thanks to the new resources easily available, the music industry has seen a need to change the way they distribute and enforce the illegal sharing of digital files. While in the United States copyright laws are inplace, they are difficult to enforce. Some companies have found a simple solution to the