Natalie Comeaux

Reading Response #1

March 7, 2007


MLA citation:

Best , Jo. "Illegal file-sharing three times as popular as itunes." 29 Nov 2005 07 Mar 2007 .

Summary:

This article mainly says that illegal file-sharing is here to stay. Statistics say that downloading music illegally is more appealing to youngsters no matter what form it may be in.

Importance:

This article is short but it gives me a few good facts and statistics to add to my paper. It gave me some other ideas as to which I could also look up to help argue my point in my paper.

Connections:

The only connection I can come up with is when the D.A.R.E. teacher told us that stealing would get us some time behind bars!!!

Supporting Source:

As stated in this article, “consumers are three times more likely to download music from illegal file-sharing websites that they are to pay for them from online song shops such as Napster and itunes”. My main argument in this paper is going to be trying to come up with a way for illegal file-sharing to be eliminated completely. Most people who but ipods do not pay for itunes to download songs, they just transfer them from a illegal file-sharing site. I am going to think of a way for Apple and itunes to get together to make a itunes the only way to download music to most ipods.