King of Blogging Week 12 Johnny Depp is Robbing us Blind

Internet piracy is a big deal nowadays with the explosion of Napster and other media sharing devices can be considered as piracy. I remember about a couple years back when lime wire was really big and I could get all the free movies and music I wanted. Now I know stealing music and movies is not right by any meanings necessary but still i must have stolen a lot of stuff. Now that I am older I think about how much money I must have been stealing and its like dang I really stole like thousands of dollars of music but you know little did I know who I was hurting because every one was doing the whole Lime wire and or portal downloads. Needless to say that file sharing is a crime that puts the music industry in terrible shape. I mean look how many music portals there are now for downloading MP3's . The music industry is tied to the FBI in its attempts to stop Pirates from illegally downloading songs. I think that piracy hurts the companies very harshly because the companies lose revenue on the sells that they should have made. I you figure they lose about a dollar a song but in the grand scheme of things if over a million people download one song that's like losing a million dollars its sad but in reality pirates are no joke to the music industry and hurt its economic abilities to produce even better music. The laws the they have are crazy too for instance if you get caught with bootleg movies you go to jail for a serious amount of time and the FBI is not joking they do catch and prosecute people for piracy. The musicians get hurt a lot too because the musicians are the ones who are like puppets in the industry all the money goes to the producers and the musicians are like the artist and figure heads that get paid the least and suffer the most with the payouts. The truth is that Musicians lose the power of copyright on their tracks and that sucks because the tracks that they spent time on making aren’t really theirs a good anoglie to make for this would be that if I make the Mona Lisa than that painting is under my name but still the right of ownership is not mine its under the company that I have signed with to paint the picture so in reality I would have no legal rights to that painting. The same concept goes for musicians who strive to make a name for them selves. It sucks but the fact is that people download music hurt the music industry in a very bad way if I made music than I would be pissed because its my hard work being messed around with by people who don’t want to pay and that shows musicians who are really fans are not by purchasing the songs they strive to make.