The Negative Consequences Of Music Piracy

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During the mid-summer months of 2016, everywhere you looked on the news, you would see the name “Taylor Swift” splashed across the headlines. This time, though, it was not because she broke up with another boyfriend or because of one of her charitable acts. This time, it was because she was complaining about a huge and illegal problem that is rarely talked about. She was speaking out against music piracy. Music piracy, or the illegal copying and redistribution of music without a composer or singer’s permission, is a huge problem in the United States. Research finds that “30 billion songs were illegally downloaded between 2004 and 2009” (Adkins, n.d.). Illegal downloading is such a large problem that groups such as the RIAA, or the Recording Industry Association of America, have formed to represent the music artists and composers, like Taylor Swift, who are having their copyrights infringed on when people pirate their music. However, music piracy is still consistently done across the United States with about “20 million people still [getting] music through peer-to-peer file-sharing” (Faughnder,2015). As …show more content…
One set of data found that many pirates “claim to be unaware that the means by which they download pirated entertainment are illegal”(Crotty, 2012). With public service announcements on television every day about topics ranging from weather emergencies to dyslexia, there could also be announcements about what music piracy is and why it’s illegal. After public service announcements were done in the UK for pirating DVDs, a survey found that more people believed downloading DVDs illegally was “an embarrassment” (Crotty, 2012). If a similar campaign to that of the UKs was done for music pirating, people would be more educated about music piracy and its consequences. In turn, they would realize that piracy is wrong and be less likely to pirate

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