The Internet Debacle: An Argumentative Analysis

What’s the big deal about downloading music, movies, or books online? You could take anyone’s laptop and I guarantee you that there will be something downloaded from the internet on there. Everyone does it. It’s convenient to get whatever song or movie you want with just the click of a button. It seems completely harmless because no one thinks beyond themselves. Technically, it is illegal to download things for free off the internet, and people who work in the music industry sand by that. They say that it cost them money because people are stealing products from artist. The articles Contextualizing the Copyright Debate: Reward vs. Creativity by Nate Anderson and The Internet Debacle: An Alternate View by Janis Ian argue the different reasons on why illegally downloading stuff is right or not. Each article was written in a certain …show more content…
It makes it stand out more as well as adding quotes or stories. Anderson excelled in using quotes. He used the quotes from different people in his paper. One quote in his article that really stuck out to me was a quote by Sonny Bunch that stated, “The purpose of intellectual property created by artists so they are rewarded for their efforts. The purpose of intellectual property law is to punish people who steal that which isn’t theirs.” (661) It gives an overview of what the author’s opinion is towards the subject. Anderson clearly stood on the side of the music industry because both of them think it’s wrong to download things for free. Ian also included a quote in their article. The quote was from an author named Mercedes Lackey who decided to put free songs up on their website. “Every time we make a few songs available on my website, sales of all the CDs go up, A lot.” (665) says Lackey when asked about it. Ian uses this quote to prove their point. Getting music or books for free is not always a bad thing. It can actually help the artist, and Ian keeps this mindset throughout the