Copyright Laws Work Well Against Illegal File Sharing, Also Called Online Theft

Life Skills E

February 24, 2012

Aaron Magazine

Copyright Laws Work Well Against Illegal File Sharing, Also Called Online Theft

The people of America need to be free of copyright laws so that they can combine songs and images into there own remix. The people's mash-up culture is right alongside copyright law. But why are the people doing this? Because copyright law is purposefully ambiguous, encouraging such creativity. This mash-up culture does not rely on file sharing. The internet and the market are providing alternatives, that will be made by the property rights system that will give the creators power over the production and distribution of the work they have made. The rights system we have in America can not be switched to empower file sharers at the risk of the artist and their creativity to continue, create and distribute their work. We should not be focused on legalizing theft, instead we could be supporting legal alternatives and teach the people the importance of the creators rights. To give up on online theft is showing a lack of faith in intelligence and reason of the American people. It surprises me how many people do illegal things. Users don't even know right or wrong on the web and it is just the easy way out of things if they can get that game or piece of music for free. America has gotten out of hand and now people are stealing the creators' work and posting it on the web illegally. Websites such as piratebay; you can download any game or music for free! The creator has to get credit for the hard work he or she put into her work and file sharing has gotten out of hand. Forming copyright was a good way to protect the creators work and it made sure they would be credited. What infuriates me is how greedy we are in America. We always want to take the easy way out of everything and we don't care about anyone but ourselves. We don't care if we rip off the original creators' work, as long as we can get that article, game or piece of music for free. Hopefully one day America will open their eyes and see what is actually happening. Creators' work is still being stolen today and it has to come to an end.

Citation

Ross, Patrick. "Copyright Laws Work Well Against Illegal File Sharing, Also
Called Online Theft."U.S.News22 Dec. 2008: n. pag.U.S.News. Web. 23 Feb.
2012. <http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2008/12/22/
copyright-laws-work-well-against-illegal-file-sharing-also-called-online-theft>.