Topic Eleven

Lecture- This topic was called Peer-to-peer Filesharing. We discussed whether downloading music is right or wrong, The general opinion of the room was that downloading music was okay, with a few disagreeing. A few points came out into the open:
That when you download something, you’re ripping somebody else.
· That the CD corporations aren’t adapting to today’s market.
· People want to support the artists that make the music, but it’s so expensive.
· That exchanging music online is good for the artists, because they are publicised. It’s simply not good for the corporations that publicise, distribute and market the music.
Tutorial- Instead of learning how to make movies, we discussed the lecture and talked about these points. Other points that came up were:
· Why should we pay for CDs, when we don’t really like most of the songs on it?
· Movies are different than Music. We should have to pay full price for movies, because movies cost more to make.
· When we download music, we’re still paying for it with our Internet fees.
· Telstra and Internet servers are making the money, but they wouldn’t agree to give licensing fees to artists and to the big corporations. They also wouldn’t want to shut down every large music download sites on the Internet because they make the money from it.
· They sell us IPODS that costs thousands of dollars to fill up completely the legal way.
Reading- The reading is from a blog on the Web. The address is http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of-oink-birth-of.html
The points in this were the same as those touched in the tutorial. The CD companies should have handled the Internet and the downloading of music in a much better way. Instead of fighting it and making it illegal, they should have adjusted their business to accommodate pirating.
Also, CDs are so expensive. They are expensive because of how much it costs to run these companies. These companies have more employees than they need, and spend so much money on business lunches and on non essential items.
These companies aren’t in control of the distributing of music anymore, and that scares them. That’s what they are paid to do now and so their future is bleak.
Also, whose fault is it? They say it’s the fault of those that burn the CDs, but it should be the fault of those that put the music on the Internet. It seems that those that put the music on the Internet are under the employ of these CD companies.