October 24, 2007
Pirates remind us what music is for
In response to Emma Schmautz’s Wednesday editorial, let me start by saying I don’t believe it’s right to pair up the recording industry with the software industry and movie industry when talking about file sharing and pirating. Software and movies are usually made by big businesses whose sole purpose and/or motivation is to make money. But money has no part and should have nothing to do with music.
It’s sad to see that in the world of music the biggest problem today is money. It brings a tear to my eye to know that artists are more concerned with how much money they’re making than about their music getting to the fans and public. Shouldn’t they be making music to express themselves? For the joy of making music? Is this all old stuff that has long since died? There was already a problem with artists today selling out or beings fakes and this isn’t helping it. I don’t want to listen to music that was made for money and to make people rich. I want to listen to music that was made for the people by the people.
Pirating copyrighted music does not degrade the creativity, hard work, and the accomplishment of the artists that made it; it’s a new idea that challenges the recording industry and threatens their pocketbooks. But I will agree with Emma that the recording industry is already extremely wealthy and that the loss they claim they have suffered from illegal downloaded music does make a dent in their overall profits. In conclusion I believe that file sharing is exactly what the recording industry needs; to get the dollar bills out of their eyes so they can start to make real quality music again and not just music that will make them rich.
-Anthony Manka
Freshman, undeclared
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