Shared Music

It's something every person has been through before. Your favorite artist or band is playing a concert in your hometown. You purchase tickets and head down to your local music store to get their latest album. It contains fourteen of their recent new songs and costs in the vicinity of seventeen to twenty-five dollars. And those tickets go for about thirty-five dollars a piece. Doesn't it seem like the price of good music is taking a toll on your wallet? I would certainly agree, and because of that, like millions of other American teenagers and adults alike, I often turn to the internet for help. But isn't the downloading of music an illegal act of piracy? Not necessarily.
Webster's Dictionary defines the term Piracy as "The unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material." By this definition, the simple task of downloading music from a file-sharing program on the Internet is not an infraction of the law. In fact, if you are downloading music......

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Title: Shared Music
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