What is considered a fair use of sharing files in terms of a piece of music? Am I breaking the law by sharing music that I brought on the CD online in a forum where people can download the music I share? Many people will argue that this will be piracy that I shouldn’t be allowed to share intellectual property online and let people download things that should have been brought legally through music stores. There’s a big issue of what is the fair use of sharing music. In the old days where music can only be played on a black disk or CDs, people share music by lending CDs to people as if it is like a book. It is fine to share books and share the information you have in your possession. However, when technology starts to improve that mass producing books by photocopying become common and cheap, it becomes a problem that book maybe shared illegally. It is the same as essays. People are not allowed to plagiarize because it is some other people’s work and intellectual property that needs to be charged if it were to be used. Music nowadays are made electronically, which make it extremely vulnerable to mass copying and downloading due to the easiness to assess to the technology to perform this heinous act (For the recording industries). For me, the only fair use of music is when music are played directly and only on CD album that can’t be mass produce and upload to any other electronic device. However, this proves something hard to do as these paradoxical issues are occurring even in company such as SONY.
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