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In the article ‘In Defense of Piracy (Well, Some Piracy)', Ruben advocated that piracy should be allowed selectively for popular singles because of the following reasons. Firstly, Ruben believes that music marketing hype is causing us to buy records we would not contemplate buying otherwise. With music marketing rising to unparalleled levels and many of which completely irrelevant to shows, piracy would be an ethical and efficient way of holding out against such marketing. Secondly, the generally poor quality of music causes us to waste money buying one album of lousy music just for one good song. Moreover, we will get tired of it eventually. Ultimately, it is hypocritical of any argument against such piracy since MP3 music is being sold legally online too. This critique aims to analyse the logic and validity of this argument.

Ruben rightly points out that music advertising is not related to the intellectual property rights argument. He uses relevant analogy and appeals to......

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