awyers simply say that all over the internet is "too many." The other side of the story cannot be ignored, however. Sharing and copying of music files seriously damages the lives of the artists who produce the music. Every day, millions of people steal from them by downloading new songs without paying anything for them. They lose massive amounts of money every time a new song has become easily available to everyone.
Even for those artists who do not care about the money, it severely hurts their pride and incentive to create new songs. If these artists were to stop producing music, there would be nothing new left to share. Both sides, the artists and the pirates, eliminate each other.
Pirated movies are also spreading across the globe in much the same way. DVD drives for computers are now becoming widespread to where many can simply copy an entire DVD as many times as they want and sell them to as many people as they want. Copy protection for these discs is easily circumvented even by nearly computer illiterate people.
Illegal copying of games and applications has been around much longer than any other form of piracy. Unti
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