Week 10 Assignment

There is a huge debate right now that has been going on for a long time and that is if file sharing shoudl be legal or not. I believe that file sharing should be legal. Some say that it hurts the artist but with file sharing, that artist might have nver been discovered. Most bands make a lot of thier money on tour and seling merchandise as well. Some may call it like shoplifting a CD from a store but i feel that it is completley different. The internet was intended for people to some together and share ideas with one another. File sharing is part of the "new" internet where people can share interests that they have with one another. Of coure there are things that show file sharing as something that is bad and there are things that show file sharing in a positive light. But it is a long debate that will most likely not have a end in the near future. So for now instead of trying to stop it all together (which i feel is near impossible) we should try to decide how to handle it better. Sueing kids out of college is not the way to fight file sharing. When we do i feel that file sharing will lend to new ideas and programs taht will change the internet once again.