The long-term effects of illegal file sharing can negatively affect our culture, society, and possibly the entire entertainment industry. Since the beginning of Napster, it gave people, especially our techno-savvy generation, a gateway to free music. Why would one go out to the store or shop online and wait for a CD in the mail when they can download it almost instantly, for free. It is almost like Adam and Eve eating from the forbidden tree, thinking that no one sees them. And the case is that usually, no one does see them.
I personally know internet pirates that get everything off the internet. When a movie comes out in theatre, one can watch a cheap bootleg version the day the movie debuts. The entire entertainment industry will have to adjust to the rising technology to stop themselves from being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The problem grows way beyond the music industry. For example, with the development of hard drives in video game consoles, video gamers......
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