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    This document is a 411-word practice argumentative essay about online file sharing. It discusses both the benefits and drawbacks of file sharing for music artists and consumers. While file sharing allows for quick dissemination of music and the rise of new artists through social media, it is not always legal and can undermine intellectual property rights if done without the owner's consent. Attempts to curb illegal file sharing through moral panic campaigns or lawsuits have largely failed and instead increased resistance from music fans. The essay concludes that changing consumers' moral views may be a better solution than harsh enforcement methods.

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    Student: Afroditi Karantonaki - Practice argumentative essay.

    Words: 411 (excluding references and in-text citations)

    Nowadays, downloading files through the Internet has become the rule, as a result of the
    technological evolution of the last two decades. However, online file sharing may sound a great

    idea, and even be a convenient solution for some people, but it has some limits, and does not come

    without consequences.

    For music artists, to begin with, online file sharing that takes place between consumers can
    prove really profitable for them, as their music disseminates around the world fast and free of

    charge. In fact, there are many artists that have initiated and taken off their career exclusively

    through social media channels, like Youtube and Facebook. Moreover, there are also artists who
    have stayed in the spotlight or returned to it, even after the sales of their physical records have

    decreased, just because their 'e-popularity' is enough to fill in big venues. Furthermore, music fans

    have a wide variety of music songs and qualities to choose from for free, although quality and file
    safety maybe questionable (Miller, 2012). Peer-to-peer file sharing is not always legal or moral as

    an action.

    In the world of internet, words like 'piracy,' 'computer ethics,' and 'intellectual property' have
    acquired new dimensions. The younger generation is believed to be disregarding towards the

    principle of property rights, while the contemporary business models prosper from file-sharing

    services, and often illegal distribution channels, because the existing related laws and limits are

    vague, and thus, intellectual-property rights are inadequately protected (Schwarz, 2013, p.12). An
    immediate reaction to that problem was to create 'moral panic' that is, to establish in people's

    conscience that file-sharing without the owner's consent is a 'bad thing to do' the same way that a

    mother teaches her child that stealing is not right. Although this moral panic technique proved a
    strong asset against serious crimes, it failed to act similarly to entertainment media files, and in

    particularly music file sharing (David and Halbert, 2014, pp. 452-453). That situation led the

    recording companies to 'declare war' against music fans, initiating individual lawsuits against them,
    which resulted, however, in turning illegal copying as an act of resistance on behalf of the music

    fans (Yar, 2013, pg. 95).

    Indeed, internet is vast, and restricting behaviours like illegal file-sharing is an extremely

    hard task, not only from a technical point of view, but also from a socio-cultural one. Maybe the
    solution is not to create more advanced ways of tracing the offenders and impose harsh fines, but
    change the moral point of view of e-consumers.

    References
    David, M., & Halbert, D. (Eds.). (2014). The SAGE handbook of intellectual property (pp.

    452-453). Sage.

    Miller, M. (2012). The ultimate digital music guide (1st ed., pp. 157-158). Indianapolis, Ind.: Que

    Publishing.
    Schwarz, J. A. (2013). Online file sharing: Innovations in media consumption (p.12). Routledge.

    Yar, M. (2013). Teenage kicks or virtual villainy? Internet piracy, moral entrepreneurship and the

    social construction of a crime problem. In Crime online (pp. 95-106). Willan.

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