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For years now, music piracy has been the center of a morally grey area. Although downloading music is illegal through such programs like limewire, one could argue that the fact the music is getting into the listener's hand and gaining popularity is more valuable than the actual retail value of the product. On the other hand, those 10-12 dollars, collectively, goes a long way for both the artist, recording company, and all around music industry. Although it may seem greedy, legally, the music companies are entitled to all the music of theirs that is out there, it had to have been paid for by someone (in their eyes).

Internet information sharing networks aren't anything new. A sharing network is essentially what the internet is. But when the information distributed is copyrighted, things get a little complicated. Since the information is copyrighted, the distributing company is legally entitled to a sum of money that they disclose. If it is not, the act of "sharing" that information is illegal. In this case that information is digital music. The music industries has the RIGHT to hunt down every single person who has illegally downloaded their product and sue them in a court of law.

However, this does not stop the massive population of people who "share" music both digitally and though other manual means. Whether or not this is ethical or not is still up in the air to the general public, but the music companies know what they want, $$$$$.

Interview-ees: Hugo as the musical artist, Matt as the crazy libertarian (won't be titled that way), and Alyssa as the pirate (her identity will be concealed)