New technologies, new challenges for us. The web, computers and digital equipment provide real time access to large data of information and knowledge. With today’s new technology we can send, copy, and digitize all kinds of data faster and easier than ever. This technology makes very attractive to us to download illegal material.
Illegal downloads seems convenient and inconspicuous, when is fact this is stealing other peoples work and property without their consent. Depriving the author/artist of income can become a larger problem for any industry. In the days of Napster we saw the income of the music industry decline day by day
We have a moral obligation to integrity and trust; every time we participate in an illegal download we are encouraging and contributing to piracy.
I found the following report on the web:
One credible analysis by the Institute for Policy Innovation concludes that global music piracy causes $12.5 billion of economic losses every year, 71,060 U.S. jobs lost, a loss of $2.7 billion in workers' earnings, and a loss of $422 million in tax revenues, $291 million in personal income tax and $131 million in lost corporate income and production taxes. For copies of the report, please visit www.ipi.org.
So next time you are tempted to download something illegal think what are you contributing.
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