Week 10

I personally never thought that downloading music for free of the Internet was a bad thing. I has just recently come to my attention that it is stealing music. Downloading music from a major label artist is not as bad compared to downloading from a struggling artist who depends on there record sales to help them survive the music industry. Copying a CD from a friend should be in the category of "good sharing" because your friend has already purchased the CD anyways, and maybe listening to their music may prompt you to go out and buy another one of their albums. It is good to share music with friends because that can also open your ears to different kinds of music and then you will want to buy the CD. I do that all the time and I am sure others do it as well. The only thing that is "bad sharing" is downloading music from independent, struggling bands, new musicians like that should not be free to download unless they are established as a major label artist.

The fact that we have no privacy what so ever with anything is a scary feeling. Most people, including myself, trust the internet and what information we give out over the internet. It is a shame that the government feels justified to collect our information. It would be one thing to monitor network traffic to find a felon and arrest them, but that is not the case and is not happening. This is an awful thing and it is good that the public is aware about this issue, however I only use my email through the school, so I feel some what protected. But this makes me feel extremely unconfortable and unsafe to open a new account with any other email program for this very reason. I would not know how to go about suggesting a type of safeguard to put in to protect people's privacy. Maybe for users to just give a name or give very little information about themselves when signing up for an email account.