Today we talked about the law when it comes to downloading and piracy . Yes, downloading IS illegal. We may not realize this and download anyway because, well, everyone does it. If you download anything such as songs without paying for it, then technically you have no right to listen to it and what your doing is illegal. The reason for this is that when we download stuff, we are not buying the rights from the company to use it.

This brings us to our second conclusion. Without buying the rights from a company, the company doesn't make any money and for some people this means that they wont be able to earn a living.

However downloading off the Internet isn't the only thing that is illegal. There are programs like Limewire that allows you to share mp3s with people. This is still illegal because the person you are sharing it with didn't pay to listen to that song. Even if YOU paid for the song it is still illegal because it's as if your giving out free music since the person your sharing it with never paid for the right to listen to it.