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Nayrim Valor
Katie Alexander
Period 03

Multimedia Downloading!

Take a look at your iPod right now; how many songs have you Downloaded… illegally? Each month, more than 2.6 billion files are illegally downloaded. The explosion in illegal copying is affecting the entire music community. Also, the files that you are downloading are coming from websites that have viruses. Downloading files without paying for them is a crime; if you can’t do the crime, don’t do the crime.
To begin with, multimedia downloading is having a destructive impact on numerous musicians, songwriters, and performers. Virtually everyone, from recording engineers to record store clerks who dream about making a living providing music to the public are getting affected. They do not know what to do anymore to stop this piracy. The unauthorized reproduction and distribution of copyrighted music is just as illegal; as shoplifting a CD. Burning CD’s from networks like Kazza, Morpheus, Ares or Gnutella is against the law. The rules are very simple, unless you own the copyright, it’s not yours to distribute to others.