Downloading MP3...an illegal thing people keep doing

When u start asking about what is right and what is wrong, you have to know first what the determination for that answer is. This question is just like a human perception of something. Each person has his own perception so something is right for one person might be wrong for others. The determination is depending on the background of that person; there are many factors that could affect human perception such as Religion, culture or belief.

For religion, every religion ultimately teaches people to be a good people and behave ethically even though they have different language and methods of teaching. Killing people are considered both unethical and very illegal thing. This is a heavy issue for every countries and religions. But it seems to be different for a violation of intellectual property such as downloading MP3 from the internet for free. Although we know that it is illegal and unethical but this looks like a minor illegal thing comparing to other illegal issues. People normally concern about their benefit first when they decide to do anything. The advantages of downloading MP3 from the internet could be out weight a feeling of guilty doing an insignificant illegal and unethical thing like this.

Due to the globalization era, Internet becomes the one of essential thing in human life. People change their behavior by using more Internets during daily life such as check mail, search engine and shopping, etc. As a result, Internet help they safe their time for example, they can buy anything on Internet such as food, clothes or music. This effect will make any company also change their marketing strategy by providing e-shopping to suit with their target market’s behavior. However, Internet also has a drawback into the market. The company must concerns about an illegal download especially mp3 or movie. The most important factor for illegal download from Internet is discharge or free.

Sharing mp3 file become popular among of teenagers. They exchange the songs to their friends via email or Internet because they don’t want to spend their money on this and it is so easy to share a file. Even some company try to set the block system when customer buy a song from them for example, iTunes have a key lock in each songs that they provide, as customers can add to its iPod only 3 times per song. But it seems to be useless to protect or reduce this action. Technology has developed day by day; it will provide the two-way effects compose of advantage and disadvantage.

Some of programs also offer the advance in technology to hack a song from the website such as YouTube. The program will hack a song from website and allow people to translate into many formats such as mp3, avi, mp4. These factors would help encouraging people for downloading MP3 from the internet.

Moreover, there is not a serious legal penalty in many countries so people don’t be afraid doing this illegal action. Hence, I and many people still keep downloading MP3 and other files from the internet.