Nam Alexander/DOWNLOADING MUSIC/ 5TH ASSIGNMENT

Nam Alexander/Thursday/Sharing music…off the Internet

Before the Internet intervened into the human beings' life they had to keep a line or safe their money within a stretched period of time in order to get the "precious" cassette or disk of their favorite musician or band. But today our intellectuals created the source, which is called the "Internet" and by using it we became able to get any audio file without big efforts. The only thing should be known is how to use the computer. Nowadays it has become a big issue, because many people - businessmen ask "Do the ordinary people have the right to download the music for free and share it within themselves?" From my personal point I cannot take the one of the sides "for" or "against", because it depends on the area of the business I am doing, but I am mostly tend to be in the side of the "free downloaders". After the Internet intervened into our life it brought a big change by doing easier to get the creatures of our favorite musicians and more complicated for the musicians-businessmen to make people pay for their creatures.

First let's ask question to ourselves "Is it the mistake of the ordinary people?" People who are just downloading music for free are an innocent character in this issue. They are rational creatures whose behavior can be justified and understood. The "free downloaders" are faces who want to save their money and enjoy a good music. Before spending the finances we always think on what it should be used in order to better off. According to my personal questioning, 95% of the people would like to download music for free instead of going to the shop and buy it. The ordinary people who are the "free downloaders" should not be punished or blamed for being rational and musician-businessmen should understand them easily, because they are rational too, when they invest their finances.

The part I wrote above should lead us to the next question – "Do the musician – businessmen not have enough financial resources or "brains" to protect their creations?" As they say "We are stolen by the "free downloaders"". But any businessman knows that if you start to do some business it should be protected and if you cannot do that, the only solutions is quit and begin doing another much more protected and beneficial thing. Frankly speaking I do not believe that "free downloading" is really for free, because there is no a person in our world who would do something for "nothing". Therefore musician-businessmen should blame only themselves that they are not able to protect their creations from that people who provide us with the "free downloading".

Next question is about the musician – businessmen like a lot, which is "Be famous". Regardless the fact, that they blame the people of the "free downloading", musician – businessmen are still in their business due to you, me and other millions of the ordinary people who are interested in their creations. Thanks to the Internet people can download and share the music they like between each other. The share means promotion of the musician-businessmen. Only thanks to that easy access people are getting known about the good music and the demand for concerts is increasing. Only imagine the situation when the access to their music is blocked or the case when everyone has to pay for the each audio file. How many people will be able to purchase it? Especially in our modern world which is full of the financial tricks like crisis and so on. Here we come back to the rationalism. People would spend their money on something more valuable. I am sure in that case the musician – businessmen will not earn much more than in the current situation, especially with the growing competition they have to face every day. So, the musician – businessmen enter in this area not only because they are talented, but because they so much like to be famous.

Here I have come out with only few reasons not to blame and punish the ordinary people who can be called "free downloader". We know that everyone is rational and for sure rationalism one of the factors which lead us to "free downloading". Next thing stands in front of our eyes which is protection of the creations. It is not the fault of the people who download, but the problem that musician who is not able to protect his or her own creation. Or maybe the reason could be because it is not tend to be considered as the "TOP SECRET". And who they are without us – people who listen to them, who they are without our support, even if they have an unbelievable talent? It means that if society loses interest to something it will lead to the crash of that thing. So my dear "talent", instead of asking to punish and blaming us, vice versa you should take care of our interest toward you and your creations, because I am sure you are still enjoying yours luxury villa and Bentley...