lawsuits against downloading music

[Anna Leung]

Music downloading suits could drive backlash: Alex Veiga


The information highway has become a powerhouse for many things, one
of which is the downloading of various media. Lately, in the act to
help CD sales, there have been lots of lawsuits regarding downloading
music off the internet. The first suit settled was against Sylvia
Torres, whose daughter was "accused of downloading more than 1,000 songs
from Kazaa" (Veiga, 2003). It has been led to believe the majority of
people caught downloading are kids, when many seniors and adults have
too been guilty of the act. However, no matter how many lawsuits are
filed, it is believed that these lawsuits would not impact as heavily on
the popularity of downloading music off the internet. The music
file-sharing program, Napster first appeared in the 1990¹s. Since then,
more and more people have been downloading music off the internet
instead of going out and buying the CDs. This caused a decline in CD
sales prompting many record labels and artists to blame and sue Napster
and similar programs for the seemingly unpopularity of buying CDs. This
eventually led to the end of Napster, albeit those that used Napster
started using other file-sharing programs such as Kazaa which leads
itself into a never ending cycle of file-sharing programs. When one
goes out of business, another will come along and take its place.
However, one critical point to make about downloading music is the fact
that many people are not as interested in buying CDs anymore, and that
most often, it is not worth purchasing a CD just for a couple of songs.

[Rita Ku]

I think that this article states the actual trend of what is happening
today. This is because, as stated in the article, technology is being
rapidly being improved, making it easier for people access, whether they
be children or adults. Napster was terminated, however, many people have
found different sources to access free "music testing". There are many
sites that specifically state that the downloading of the music is for
the user to listen to see the songs suit their interests; however, not
many people actually go out to buy the CDs, leading to a huge decline in
CD sales. I also believe that no matter how hard people try to eliminate
the "free testing" of music, there will always be something else that
will take over, which has already been proven from Napster to Kazaa to
WinMx. This trend will never end due to the constant improvement of
technology.

Post by Anna Leung
Music downloading suits could drive backlash: Alex Veiga
The information highway has become a powerhouse for many things, one
of which is the downloading of various media. Lately, in the act to
help CD sales, there have been lots of lawsuits regarding downloading
music off the internet. The first suit settled was against Sylvia
Torres, whose daughter was "accused of downloading more than 1,000 songs
from Kazaa" (Veiga, 2003). It has been led to believe the majority of
people caught downloading are kids, when many seniors and adults have
too been guilty of the act. However, no matter how many lawsuits are
filed, it is believed that these lawsuits would not impact as heavily on
the popularity of downloading music off the internet. The music
file-sharing program, Napster first appeared in the 1990¹s. Since then,
more and more people have been downloading music off the internet
instead of going out and buying the CDs. This caused a decline in CD
sales prompting many record labels and artists to blame and sue Napster
and similar programs for the seemingly unpopularity of buying CDs. This
eventually led to the end of Napster, albeit those that used Napster
started using other file-sharing programs such as Kazaa which leads
itself into a never ending cycle of file-sharing programs. When one
goes out of business, another will come along and take its place.
However, one critical point to make about downloading music is the fact
that many people are not as interested in buying CDs anymore, and that
most often, it is not worth purchasing a CD just for a couple of songs.

[Julia Trieu]

Post by Anna Leung
Music downloading suits could drive backlash: Alex Veiga
The information highway has become a powerhouse for many things, one
of which is the downloading of various media. Lately, in the act to
help CD sales, there have been lots of lawsuits regarding downloading
music off the internet. The first suit settled was against Sylvia
Torres, whose daughter was "accused of downloading more than 1,000 songs
from Kazaa" (Veiga, 2003). It has been led to believe the majority of
people caught downloading are kids, when many seniors and adults have
too been guilty of the act. However, no matter how many lawsuits are
filed, it is believed that these lawsuits would not impact as heavily on
the popularity of downloading music off the internet. The music
file-sharing program, Napster first appeared in the 1990¹s. Since then,
more and more people have been downloading music off the internet
instead of going out and buying the CDs. This caused a decline in CD
sales prompting many record labels and artists to blame and sue Napster
and similar programs for the seemingly unpopularity of buying CDs. This
eventually led to the end of Napster, albeit those that used Napster
started using other file-sharing programs such as Kazaa which leads
itself into a never ending cycle of file-sharing programs. When one
goes out of business, another will come along and take its place.
However, one critical point to make about downloading music is the fact
that many people are not as interested in buying CDs anymore, and that
most often, it is not worth purchasing a CD just for a couple of songs.

No matter what music companies do to try and stop music/file sharing, it
will never end. Once people have started downloading these things, I
doubt they will go back to buying multiple CDs instead of just
downloading the ones that you like. Also, CD burners just encourage
either making copies of CDs or burning your own CDs from downloaded
files. Its funny how Kazza puts out "corrupted" music files to try and
discourage users from downloading songs because I doubt many people are.

[Mehvish Rizvi]

Post by Anna Leung
Music downloading suits could drive backlash: Alex Veiga
The information highway has become a powerhouse for many things, one
of which is the downloading of various media. Lately, in the act to
help CD sales, there have been lots of lawsuits regarding downloading
music off the internet. The first suit settled was against Sylvia
Torres, whose daughter was "accused of downloading more than 1,000 songs
from Kazaa" (Veiga, 2003). It has been led to believe the majority of
people caught downloading are kids, when many seniors and adults have
too been guilty of the act. However, no matter how many lawsuits are
filed, it is believed that these lawsuits would not impact as heavily on
the popularity of downloading music off the internet. The music
file-sharing program, Napster first appeared in the 1990¹s. Since then,
more and more people have been downloading music off the internet
instead of going out and buying the CDs. This caused a decline in CD
sales prompting many record labels and artists to blame and sue Napster
and similar programs for the seemingly unpopularity of buying CDs. This
eventually led to the end of Napster, albeit those that used Napster
started using other file-sharing programs such as Kazaa which leads
itself into a never ending cycle of file-sharing programs. When one
goes out of business, another will come along and take its place.
However, one critical point to make about downloading music is the fact
that many people are not as interested in buying CDs anymore, and that
most often, it is not worth purchasing a CD just for a couple of songs.

the downlaoding of songs from the internet has not only caused alot of
tropuble for copyright companies but has leada to a number of law suit
issues. but the reality of it all is that it is convinient, cheaper and
much more efficint to download than to own a huge collection of cds. a
solution could be companies can start to charge people downlading more
than 50 songs.

[Jaclyn Waite]

Post by Anna Leung
Music downloading suits could drive backlash: Alex Veiga
The information highway has become a powerhouse for many things, one
of which is the downloading of various media. Lately, in the act to
help CD sales, there have been lots of lawsuits regarding downloading
music off the internet. The first suit settled was against Sylvia
Torres, whose daughter was "accused of downloading more than 1,000 songs
from Kazaa" (Veiga, 2003). It has been led to believe the majority of
people caught downloading are kids, when many seniors and adults have
too been guilty of the act. However, no matter how many lawsuits are
filed, it is believed that these lawsuits would not impact as heavily on
the popularity of downloading music off the internet. The music
file-sharing program, Napster first appeared in the 1990¹s. Since then,
more and more people have been downloading music off the internet
instead of going out and buying the CDs. This caused a decline in CD
sales prompting many record labels and artists to blame and sue Napster
and similar programs for the seemingly unpopularity of buying CDs. This
eventually led to the end of Napster, albeit those that used Napster
started using other file-sharing programs such as Kazaa which leads
itself into a never ending cycle of file-sharing programs. When one
goes out of business, another will come along and take its place.
However, one critical point to make about downloading music is the fact
that many people are not as interested in buying CDs anymore, and that
most often, it is not worth purchasing a CD just for a couple of songs.

I believe that this was a good article in the sense that a very good
point was raised concerning the fact that although one file-sharing
program is shut down, another will be created.

[Peter Leung]

Post by Anna Leung
Music downloading suits could drive backlash: Alex Veiga
The information highway has become a powerhouse for many things, one
of which is the downloading of various media. Lately, in the act to
help CD sales, there have been lots of lawsuits regarding downloading
music off the internet. The first suit settled was against Sylvia
Torres, whose daughter was "accused of downloading more than 1,000 songs
from Kazaa" (Veiga, 2003). It has been led to believe the majority of
people caught downloading are kids, when many seniors and adults have
too been guilty of the act. However, no matter how many lawsuits are
filed, it is believed that these lawsuits would not impact as heavily on
the popularity of downloading music off the internet. The music
file-sharing program, Napster first appeared in the 1990¹s. Since then,
more and more people have been downloading music off the internet
instead of going out and buying the CDs. This caused a decline in CD
sales prompting many record labels and artists to blame and sue Napster
and similar programs for the seemingly unpopularity of buying CDs. This
eventually led to the end of Napster, albeit those that used Napster
started using other file-sharing programs such as Kazaa which leads
itself into a never ending cycle of file-sharing programs. When one
goes out of business, another will come along and take its place.
However, one critical point to make about downloading music is the fact
that many people are not as interested in buying CDs anymore, and that
most often, it is not worth purchasing a CD just for a couple of songs.

Most people nowadys realize that it only costs less than $5 to produce a
CD. Before, CDs cost $25 and people are making big profits. Lowering
the price to around $13 is more reasonable and people do believe it's
more convenient to go to store and buy a CD instead of waiting for it to
download. I believe most people download songs because they want the
songs that they like all in one CD rather than people being cheap.