Do you know that how many important a music or movie is? As time goes by, nowadays people live in a hectic world and even today’s society advocates and requires this phenomenon. Most people who have a job usually work in weekdays and take a rest on weekends. Even some people work seven days a week. As developing modern industry, amount of people’s leisure time is decreasing more and more. Thus, when people enjoy their leisure time, they want to spend leisure time with good quality of contents like movie, music and TV show, because the time is short to enjoy.
Therefore, some people enjoy the leisure time watching movie and listening movie in their house by using digital contents like DVD. However, some of these spend the time with illegal contents which are from illegal download websites. Furthermore, there are a lot of illegal websites in online naturally and even collecting list of illegal website (Gil, 2014). Downloading music and movie illegally is really simple and easy if people who want to download without paying know the illegal website like “Torrent”. Go to website, find music or movie and download without pay.
Through downloading illegally, many contents producers get a monetary loss. Of course, entertainment industry can get advantage through download without paying, because illegal downloading causes publicity effect even if the actions are illegal. As this mention, artists and producers are the largest victims, nevertheless people who download contents illegally do not consider the producers and people who provide contents to anyone illegally are the most important cause in this problem. People who make entertaining content were already victim unavoidably, because of the growth modern technology and changing modern distribution structure.
Form of record has been developing from phonograph to today’s digital recording technology. (Morton, n. d,) In other words, form of record changed from visible shape to invisible shape. What if record form was invested until CD form or tape form? Rate of illegal downloading might be less than today’s downloading shape and not to be common as well. Logically and ethically, stealing invisible content does not come to their mind directly than stealing visible content, because illegal downloading is more common than before.
In addition, these days, when producer produce contents, producer have to need variety technology, equipments and much money than shape of content was CD or tape. Moreover, to all outward appearances the entertainment market is bigger and affect in society, this is true, but actually people who work in littlish industry get monetary damage from people who download content illegally. People who advocate illegal downloading claim that people continue to download illegally, producer who want to be famous, in other word minor producer get publicity advantage by spreading easily (Shannon, n. d, para 4 ).
Although, major producer or company do not affect from this case, because they make money through different ways like own concert and making an appearance TV show, minor producer or company make money through most of the margin of sale albums. Therefore, for minor producer or company even major company, they get damage in sight of creation profit and income is less than expense. One of philosopher, John Stuart Mill, said that if people will suffer because of your action, then you should not do it (27 - 28). This means that people who are continuing download illegally, they have to stop, because artist and producer get suffer.
Last of all, especially, music industry was evaluated almost part of art, however, nowadays, music industry is part of art and part of industry. The music industry locates in big part of industry and needs a lot of capital as another industry like primary, second and third industry. However, people who download content illegally hinder the industry to develop through continuing illegal downloading. However, illegal downloading is really simple, easy even free and people have been continuing illegal downloading different ways from record technology started to be common for anyone.
The most attractive point of illegal downloading is free. It is standard of downloading whether regal or illegal. In addition, people have recorded TV show, song and movie using recording device before invention invisible content like digital sound source. People who argue that illegal downloading is same as recording TV show cannot accept stopping illegal downloading, because nobody thought that recording TV show is illegal. As a result, people download illegally as kind of hobby. They have been possessing contents without paying from before and most downloader have not been punished for illegal downloading.
Besides, nowadays privacy has a kind of right and according to this article; The UN Declaration of Human Rights defined Privacy as this: “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with people’s privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon people’s honour and reputation”(UN, n. d, para 13) Therefore, people who download illegally have right that nobody disturb to them. Moreover, one of philosopher, Immanuel Kant, proposed that human being have respect and people have to respect every people and people’s freedom (15-16). This means that even though people download contents illegally, they are also respected.
However, Warren Buffett said “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken” (Buffett & Clark, 2006, p. 16), in other words, people who download illegally cannot feel that is illegal (Zernike, 2003, para 3), because illegal downloading is kind of hobby that people think that is nothing. The real criminal of illegal downloading is illegal provider. A few providers who provide contents on website offer for sharing their friends or acquaintances. However, most illegal provider works for their making money. The action is a crime of infringement of copyright and same as to steal somebody’s belongings.
Illegal provider gave to the music industry $12. 5 billion in economic losses (Adkins, n,d, para 2). In addition, people who provide contents legally help to develop to entertainment industry by selling contents and advertising which is related the industry. In contrast, illegal provider is hampering entertainment industry. Even illegal downloading made producer and artist to change sales system to direct sale. Moreover, firstly, stopping illegal downing should find people who are providing contents illegally. It is more effective than saying to illegal downloader to stop downloading illegally.
The way that eliminate illegal provider is the first of reducing illegal download, because they are the point of this phenomenon. In addition, what is the most important advantage to download with paying for downloader? The advantage is developing content’s quality. When the people download contents through regal website, they listen and watch the contents in more detail, because they paid for the contents and do not want to waste money. In other words, the action can stimulate the supply market to produce more quality contents. Lastly, for Aristotle, something which disrupts human’s growth is bad (2-3).
Even if, illegal provider donates for developing society, it is still cause of discouragement for artist and producer growth or developing and bad as well. As the mention, entertainment industry has been developing in sight of scale of the industry and sight of technology. As a result, shape of contents changed to invisible shape. Unfortunately, the industry gets monetary damage from illegal downloader and provider annually. On the other hand, although minor producer or artist gets advantage of publicity effect through illegal download, bigger problem is of course monetary problem. However, illegal downloading is indeed simple, easy and free.
Therefore, illegal downloader prefers to download by free. In contract, illegal download is undoubtedly crime. In addition, the root cause is illegal provider; it is the most effective solution that reduces them through reinforces the law. Moreover, using three philosophers advocated how to support each body. In conclusion, illegal downloading come downloader to tempt fugitively, however if you are people who like and love entertainment contents, the people have to consider the industry in the long term. What if the industry is failed, the people can feel? How the industry’s developing is precious?
