In recent times, technological advancement offers people easy access to patented musics and books on internet that is streamable without any cost. While it is argued by some that this is a negative development, I would say it is certainly a positive development.
On one hand, there are in fact few reasons exist that make people to think it’s not a blessing. First of all, if musics and books are downloaded from internet through various third party sites and apps then the creative owners won’t get any revenue. That will not only stop their means of earning but also demotivate them to create anything further because of large amount of piracy. Secondly, there are some fishing sites always looking for innocents to fall into their traps by clicking into given links when they try to pirate creative arts such as songs or documents. Piracy has become very common these day so are the hackers looking for the right pawns.
On the other hand, there are various merits that make me think this as a positive development. Firstly, technological development gives everyon an equal opportunity to gain easy access to numerous valuable elements such as academic lectures, seminar, podcasts, research papers which are really not very available for everyone. This allows individuals to learn and grow about many aspects, they can also share the knowledge with others at the same time. Secondly, since everything is available it’s really a tremendous help for those for those who can’r afford these valuable elements otherwise. There are, infact, many individuals who are eager to learn but don’t have the luxury to afford even minimum. A good illustration to this, in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, there are several music enthusiasts found it hard in their learning period, since they couldn’t afford the institutions’ payments but thanks to the internet because of it they could download some top class teachers’ courses which enabled them to become good artists.
In conclusion, it is true that downloading copyrighted songs and writings for free does affect negatively to some, but I would argue that it’s advantages serve more people on bigger scale.