No One Eats For Free

Internet Piracy is one of the largest theft rings in the world today. It use to be  before the internet that you would by the * track or the tape or Lp and obtain music that way. But now you can go online and download anything you want for free. The file sharing industry has basically broken the music industry. All it takes is one person to upload a song into a file sharing site and a unimaginable amount of people can download the song. The sales of CD’s has dropped dramatically due to this problem. The only way to stop this problem is to eliminate the file sharing sites. But this is far from realistic because  it seems like four more open when another one gets shut down. Plus even if we were able to some how stop the file sharing online would we really stop people from burning a copy of a CD for there friends. Yes  its true they say  they put a block on the CD so people can’t burn a copy but I know there are geeks out there who break the lock and start burning copies. To me this is a never ending war. It reminds me of the war on drugs. It is not possible to control what every person does all the time. Crooks will find a way to continue to break the law. The fact is there are too many people in to many countries to stop this from happening. The internet gets hacked seems like monthly anymore and a credit card company sends a were sorry letter to the customer informing that some of there information may have been obtained. This is closely linked with how music is being stolen basically. But the one that is really affected is the artist. The artist is the one not benefiting from their music being sold to customers because people can get it only for free. Which reminds me of a saying I learned growing up “ No one eats for free”. That is so true because the theft of the music not only effects the artist and label and producer and all the underlying people who make money off the song but if no one is buying the music then the people trying to sell the CD like Best Buy , Target and Wal-Mart don’t need to employ people to sell it. So the people who are stealing it affect the whole water fall of people for downloading a CD. And for the most part the people who are downloading it for free are the ones working at the Best Buy, Targets and Wall-Marts. So they are only hurting themselves in the long run. Maybe if people would stop trying to get everything for nothing then we wouldn’t have all the issue we have today  in regards to lost jobs and to failing companies. Remember this if nothing else “no one eats for free”.