Pirating and Copyright Infringement

In the podcast we created we used our own work. We used our own picture and the music/jingle was pre downloaded and it was only 10 seconds. We also recorded it ourselves and made up everything we said.

Downloading music is wrong because it is illegal and takes money away from artists and producers. They work hard to produce this music for us to enjoy so we should repay them by actually purchasing the song instead of pirating it. Therefore, copyright laws should exist to protect songs so if someone does illegally download music the artists has some justice. Piracy is prevalent in our society today because people don't think its a big deal to download music without paying for it. They don't think they are hurting anyone by doing this but in reality they are taking money from the artists who deserve to be paid for what they do. If someone used my podcast without my permission I would be upset because I worked hard to put it together and they are using it without having to do any work.