Music criminals!

For me, Yars article was really interesting, as their has been many of a time when I have sat in movies feeling ashamed and feeling my toes curl up as those anti piracy adverts come on, declaring that I am a criminal if I have duplicated music off the web. They are really intimidating and do instil that idea, or as Yar calls it that 'myth', that it is a criminal act and is the same as stealing from a store. However, I do not agree completely as I think there is truth behind the statement that if someone has created something they should have control over it and benefit from it. I think that the development of the internet has created holes in the music industry but is scaring people into thinking they are criminals the right way of going about trying to accommodate for this new media? I don’t think so. I think that because it has become so easy for people to download music on the net the music industry needs to adjust to. If someone does download an artist’s song off the net, I really do not think it is a complete bad thing as the artist is still getting heard and that one song downloaded could fuel a reaction in which the person could buy cds, merchandise and then essentially attend concerts. People are e downloading the song in the first place because they want to discover if they really do enjoy this artist’s music. An idea which I think is very good which was discussed in my tutorial was that the music industry maybe needs to give people the opportunity to listen to and download music for free. However the catch is, that the person can only listen to it certain a mount of times and then has to buy it, I think this is a great idea as you will just start to like the song and it will essentially fuel that chain reaction. So overall, I do think that the approach which is taken by the music industries is harsh and other approaches in which I have just discussed which don’t turn the consumer into a criminal.