Natalie Comeaux

Reading Response #2

March 7, 2007


MLA Citation:

Strauss, Neil. "File-Sharing Battle Leaves Musicians Caught in Middle." 14 Sep 2003 07 Mar 2007 .

Summary:

Consumers have been illegally downloading music for years but in 1999 a campaign developed against these actions. Numerous amounts of people have been sued for downloading music without paying for it. Though musicians would rather people buy there CDs so they can make profit from them they do not want their fans to think they are being unfriendly.

Importance:

This article gives some input from musicians and how they feel about illegal file sharing. My paper is to try and find a reasonable way for consumers to download music legally and somehow give money back to artists so they won’t have people stealing from them.