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Downloading Copyright Music: Legal or Illegal
Illegally downloading music of the internet for free is a huge controversy in this day and age. Many people fight that the music was bought at one time so they are not hurting anyone. Companies and musicians on the other hand, have a different view about downloading this music for free. They argue that have made this music and people are downloading it off the internet instead of buying it from a store. Sales in the music industry have gone down as a result, a twenty percent loss globally since 1999. The music industry is suffering greatly from people downloading music off the internet, so are the musicians who make their living from selling their music, and if you do download music do you know what the consequences are when you get caught?
In the past four years downloading music off the internet has cost the music industry nearly twelve billion dollars in profit. This is do to the fact that is much easier,
and free, to go on your......

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