Response to sarajnewman

Response to sarajnewman

I really like the passage you chose that highlighted the major motivations for piracy.  I feel as though sharing in an online community and sampling in the form of remixing songs go hand in hand.  Today, it is common to find music that is sampled from others music, including within the well known band Led Zepplin.  They used rifts and ideas from others songs to create some of the most well known music.  Now with technology available to the whole public, we are able to download music freely and use that music to sample and create new songs.  All music is a form of art and building off ideas in art to make something completely unique is a part of that.  Because music is an art, it should be being shared within the public to listen and create off of.  Copyright laws protect the rights of the artists claiming the music as their own.  We as a the public who participate in piracy are not violating laws because we are not claiming we wrote or performed the songs.  You also made a point that I addressed in response to another podcast which is the expense of music.  I'm a poor student and would not have been able to afford the thousand plus songs on my ipod, but does that mean I shouldn't be allowed to listen to them? Or should I settle for listening on the radio with advertisements playing every other song? As if we aren't surrounded by enough.