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There are many things that are good about the Internet and one of them is how fast we can share information and where your information can be saved, either in the cloud or on a hard drives. In my survey, I found that exactly half of the people use cloud storage. There are also a growing number of places that you can get movies and music for free. “In 1999, Napster, then acting outside the law, made it possible for consumers to access their favorite music by taking it off the Internet in the form of MP3 files” per Marketing Week. The site was later shut down by the government but it led to the power of the Internet and the ability to downloading content without pay for it. According to British Phonographic Industry in Marketing Week, the digital downloading has “had a catastrophic effect” on the sales of music. Downloading music or sharing it for free, also known as P2P or peer-to-peer, has been a large part in the 38% decline in albums and single sales. That equals a loss of a little more than 2 billion dollars, according to the International Federation of Phonographic Industries in Market Week.
In Canada, a court ruling could make ISP (Internet Service Providers) name the names of people who download content illegally. This would cut down on the number of people who do it by a large amount. According to Digital life, a Minnesota woman was ordered to pay $220,000 because she downloaded 24 songs. The ruling in Canada means that people cannot hide behind their IP addresses. In the mid-2000s in the United States, people of all different backgrounds received notices of lawsuits against them over illegal downloads. So, over all, right now you can download whatever you want, but in the not-so-distant future, don...

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