Piracy Podcast

In our Computer class we learned about Piracy. We made a podcast talking about piracy and copyright infringement. We talked about how it affects the people who own the rights and what happens to people when they do copyright from other people. If you would like to listen to it here is a link to our podcast: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5k_jl2rGQmxYzBjMjVhYmQtNTUxMy00ZGU5LWI5ZWQtMTFlNmE2ODg2MGYw&hl=en_US  

Out picture for our Podcast is:

The picture we have as our podcast picture is not copyrighted. We made this picture in Microsoft Paint and did not steal anyone's idea. Therefore, it is not copyright infringement. Our music we chose in our podcast does not infringe on any copyrighted material also. The music we chose came from Garage Bands library. All Garage Bands music is listed under public domain. So, in our Podcast we are not breaking any Copyright laws.

I personally think downloading music off the internet is wrong. It is wrong because when you illegally download music you are not just stealing from the singer but you are also stealing from the composer and music label that published it. You may think the artist are already rich stealing from them would not matter, but it does. If everyone just got their music for free no artists would get paid and they would stop making music all together. I believe copyright laws should exist because it is unfair if someone did all the hard work and someone just took it and said it was theirs. It should also be a law because it makes people want to do their own work and not rely on other people to copy from.

Piracy is really prevalent in our society today. A great percentage of people are obtaining pirated movies, CDs, and songs. I think it is prevalent in our world today because our economy is down and on iTunes the prices are going up for songs. The song pricing was raised from 99 cents to $1.29. And many people cannot afford to buy all their songs they like at 1.29 apiece. We should have this stop though because I would personally hate it if someone used my podcast without my permission.