MEDIA PIRACYIT’S ALL A CRIME

Creators:

Dajane Martin

Tori Slater

Brittany Davies

DAJANE MARTIN

THE QUESTION ABOUT PIRACY

What negative affects has media piracy had on the American

society?

- One of the things I did to narrow the question I came up with

was to keep my question geared towards a specific area which

is America. Also instead of just saying effects, because there

could be negative and positive affects I just focused on the

negative part of piracy. My argument is basically stating that

even though many people

MY POINT

I think the most important point/argument that I

am trying to make is that media piracy is not

something that only affects the producers of media.

It also affects the people who don’t do because the

prices of the media rises and someone that they

know may also get them in trouble by being fined or

put in jail. So media piracy affects the criminals and

the producers but also innocent people. This is a

whole society that media piracy is affecting.

THE SUPPORT BOOKS

Martinez, R. "Matthew David, Peer to Peer and the

Music Industry: The Criminalization of Sharing;

Sociology 26.5 (2011): 655-58. Print.

"Pop Song Piracy." : Disobedient Music Distribution

since 1929, Kernfeld. August 2011. Web. 15 Nov.

2012.

<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chi

cago/P/bo11590513.html>.

THE SUPPORT ARTICLES

Scholarly Article: Wall, David S. Jailhouse Frocks:

Locating the Public Interest in Policing Counterfeit Luxury

Fashion Goods Journal of Criminology November 1, 2010

50: 1094-1116

Ellyat, Holly. "Florida City Named 'Pirate Capital' of Music

World." Yahoo! Finance. Web. 15 Nov. 2012.

<http://finance.yahoo.com/news/music-industry-fights-

conquer-piracys-104812479.html>.

THE SUPPORT WEBSITE

"Industry Pressure on Music Piracy." Music Piracy.

The New York Times. The Associated Press, 1 Mar.

2007. Web. 19 Dec. 2012.

LETS EVALUATE

The sources I used are all credible because they

are either from reliable sources like New York times

website or scholarly articles and books all written by

authors that have good rating or that are professors,

researchers, or are in other form of a high

profession.

RESEARCH QUESTION

Are the consequences too heavy when one commits the

act of piracy on media?

I chose this research question after my group and I talked

over multiple topics we could pull from our over all topic of

Piracy and I was interested in learning about the

consequences that come with being caught stealing media.

I narrowed my question down from asking about

consequences in general to dealing with only consequences

being too heavy while also making my question arguable at

the same time.

ARGUMENT?

My argument is that consequences seem to vary from being too

light or too heavy. I think that consequences are too heavy at

times when stealing media. I say this because there are many

websites circulating through the internet and many people think

that since there is a website for piracy than it must be okay. We

forget that stealing media is just like stealing a purse from a

department store. It is illegal and many will be caught. I think

that more advertisements should be presented so this way we will

be more educated with the act of piracy.

RESEARCH SOURCES

From my five sources I think that three of them will be very

sufficient towards my research. My first source is a book called,

Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of

Sharing. Second source is an article called, Purchase or Pirate:

A Model of Consumer Intellectual Property Theft. Third source

is my second article choice called, Digital Piracy: Causes,

Consequences and Strategic Responses.

All of these sources will back up my position because they all

have to deal with consequences and why one should purchase

media and not pirate.

Information is also given to what factors lead to someone

committing the act of piracy.

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TORI SLATER

WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF PIRACY ON ARTIST AND THEIR

LABEL?

I narrowed my question by focusing

on artist and their label, and did some

presearching.

MY ARGUMENT

Piracy on music has major effects on artist and

their label?

THE RESOURCES

The book I used gets more in depth with music

piracy

The scholarly article is helpful because its written

by experts

The website helps me because its unbiased and

relevant

BRITTANY DAVIES

SHOULD MEDIA PIRACY BE LEGALIZED

I came up with my question by first doing some pre searching.

I wanted to keep my question centered on how media piracy effects individuals.

First question was: what would happen if media piracy was legal?

POSITION/ THESIS

I believe that music piracy should not

be legalized because it promotes

stealing in such a free manner. Piracy

in the music industry has lead to

problems within the economy as well as

money loss for artist. Stealing is still a

crime and those guilty should be held

accountable.

ARGUMENT

Money loss for artist

Promotes stealing

Negative effects on the economy

I answered my research question by finding

evidence to back up my thesis statement.

Within my sources I found information about

how piracy within the music industry has had

negative effects on the US economy

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provides valuable information on why piracy

is harmful to the music industry from the

artist’s point of view

provides statistics, and specific quotes from

artist are who talk about how digital piracy

has negatively affected their work

HINDUJA , SAMEER. MUSIC P IRACY AND CRIME THEORY. NEW YORK: LFB SCHOLARLY PUB. LLC, 2006 . PRINT.

how and why people engage in media piracy

people partake in the act due to their peer’s

actions and the easiness of the crime

media piracy has a negative effect on people

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P R I N T.

This article talks about how digital music piracy

has become such a burden on the entertainment

industry as well as the US economy resulting in

billions of dollars lost

EVALUATION PROCESS

factual because they are written by journalist and experts.

information is often presented in a way which

in unbiased. With the scholarly article, I can

trust that that the information is reliable

because it is often written by a professor

or scholar in that particular field. 

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