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Is Contradictory Writing Balderdash? In Charles W. Moore’s essay, “Is Music Piracy Stealing?” Moore uses great statistics of the people who are concerned and not concerned about music piracy. He gives many examples of the facts he has researched and gives an ethical appeal to his audience. “This week the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) launched an ad campaign using the slogan ‘copying is stealing,’ attempting to convey the message that digital copying is as serious and criminal as stealing a CD from a record shop or a DVD from a video shop” (Moore 242). However, throughout Moore’s entire essay he has a weak introduction and conclusion paragraph, repetitive examples, examples that do not apply to his topic and he uses many logical …show more content…
Instead of giving facts about what he is arguing or simply stating his views on the topic, that music piracy is not stealing, he gives facts telling why it actually is stealing. This is contradicting to what he tries to prove and confuses the audience right at the beginning of his essay. In his concluding paragraph he uses a metaphor to attempt to make his point but, it turns out to be extremely puzzling. “Copywriting as we knew it in the twentieth century is doomed. It will still be able to thrash and writhe for a while yet in its death throes, and cause plenty of collateral damage in the lives of certain individuals, but it is ultimately dead meat” (Moore 249). The metaphor he uses is muddled because by trying to personify copyright it creates a cynical and different point than he is trying to make to end to his essay. Also, it does not tie into the introduction leaving the reader curious about how the opening and closing paragraph are related. The introduction gives all of these statistics of why music piracy is stealing. The closing paragraph gives a description of copywriting in the twentieth century is “doomed”. The two paragraphs are opposite from each other and do not make any sense to the points he is attempting to …show more content…
Moore uses many statistics, has a great title, and gets his audience to think about what ethics they stand for in his essay “Is Music Piracy Stealing?”. But throughout his essay he constantly contradicts himself , his use of facts is overwhelming and his attempt of repetition for effect is obnoxious. He uses multiple logical fallacies in his writing and his introductory paragraph started with an example that was contradictory to his topic. Also, in his concluding paragraph he uses a metaphor that does not make sense and leaves his audience confused about the idea he is getting across to them. Although Moore is a published writer, in this particular essay, he could have wrote a stronger beginning and ending paragraph, left out many facts, and not been ignorant to uses many logical
This tactic portrays how used textbooks are the real culprit, and I agree that this topic feeds into the reason why textbooks are so expensive. In theory, the buyers of the used textbook think they are getting an amazing deal but in reality, buying a used textbook only raises the price of new textbook. In this article Roediger says “One major dissimilarity in these cases are pirated movies and music are legal and used textbook market is legal” (Roediger, pg. 490) The used textbook market is unjust to the company and the author, and it demonstrates that the industry is at fault. While the act of pirating movies and music is illegal the concept of selling used textbooks directly correlates with the idea of textbook resale without the author profiting. From Roediger’s perspective the used textbook industry has been portrayed in an undesirable light. Roediger speaks negatively of the used textbook industry by saying, “they are true parasites, deriving profits with no investment while damaging their hosts” (Roediger, pg. 490) I agree that the used textbook industry is greedy because they are benefitting from work that never belonged to them. The authors are doing the heavy lifting while the used textbook companies profit
Howard, Rebecca Moore. “Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty.” College English 57 (1995). 788-806.
Over the past decade the societal view of creative society has greatly changed due to advances in computer technology and the Internet. In 1995, aware of the beginning of this change, two authors wrote articles in Wired Magazine expressing diametrically opposed views on how this technological change would take form, and how it would affect copyright law. In the article "The Emperor's Clothes Still Fit Just Fine" Lance Rose hypothesized that the criminal nature of copyright infringement would prevent it from developing into a socially acceptable practice. Thus, he wrote, we would not need to revise copyright law to prevent copyright infringement. In another article, Entitled "Intellectual Value", Esther Dyson presented a completely different view of the copyright issue. She based many her arguments on the belief that mainstream copyright infringement would proliferate in the following years, causing a radical revision of American ideas and laws towards intellectual property. What has happened since then? Who was right? This paper analyzes the situation then and now, with the knowledge that these trends are still in a state of transformation. As new software and hardware innovations make it easier to create, copy, alter, and disseminate original digital content, this discussion will be come even more critical.
Stolley, K. and Brizee, A. (2011-06-02). “Avoiding Plagiarism: Overview and Contradictions”. The Writing Lab, Purdue University. Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/
...erviews from people he knows and has available around him. He also explains how these copyright laws affect not only them, but also him. He includes facts and statistics, giving a professional feel to his article from government documents and other professionally proven places. The organization of the pathos and ethos in this article makes it that much more compelling. He draws you in by giving real facts about how it affects different age groups and then follows up by telling how it’s affected him and his personal experiences, further setting his argument in stone. Overall, he does a mediocre job at getting his opinion across to his audience.
There is the need to shift from the traditional seeing of plagiarism on essays, reports from a single site that uses one research method only, and professors offering various recommendations; to an era where scholarly materials on plagiarism gives more insight and persuasive enough and significant to both compositionists and people in and outside the academy. In spite, all the challenges in trying to maintain academic integrity, the major and critical factor that can lead to its achievement is; if everyone develops ethical writing skills.
Richard Simmons, the lead singer of the rock band KISS, has been cited (should “as” be here? Not sure.) speaking out in a distasteful and informal manner against illegal file sharing with the following quote: “It’s only their (you should define who “they” are before this. Seems a little out of context. It seems like you are still addressing file sharing, which is what you introduce the quote as being about, but in reality, he is addressing the people who allow it, whoever they may be) fault for letting foxes get into the henhouse and then wondering why there’s no eggs or chickens. Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid’s face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning”(Source). In his statement, Richard encapsulates the indignation many musicians feel towards people who steal music through file sharing (also known as music piracy). This anger is warranted by the morally accepted viewpoint that stealing is unethical. Music piracy is not measly pilfering, either. “As a consequence of global and U.S.-based piracy of sound recordings, the U.S. economy loses $12.5 billion in total output annually”(Source). However, what if the unhappiness that Richard and other artists feel from illegal file sharing also caused millions of people to be happy? Would the wrongs (that) stealing music caused be morally justified by the prodigious quantity of pleasure generated by music piracy? This is a question similar to one that the founder of a philosophy known as utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham, asked himself. Through the question, Bentham concluded that “[t]he highest principle of morality is to maximize happiness, the overall balance of...
In the first place, writing at any level is a challenge. It is a process that requires active thinking as well as creativity. Equally important, is the drive to understand what is necessary to inform the reader when using someone else’s work. In his findings, Gabriel begins with examples of students that committed plagiarism in colleges both unknowingly and intentionally. After exploring the opinions of writing tutors and officials in these situations, he suggests that many students fail to realize that plagiarism is a crime (Gabriel). He relies on the expert opinions of educators who deal with these situations on a daily basis. One such opinion mentioned, is that of Teresa Fishman, the director for the Center of Academic Integrity at Clemson University (Gabriel). She stated, “It’s possible to believe this information is just out there for anyone to take” (qtd. in Plagiarism Lines). This is said in reference to how easy technology has made “copying” and “pasting” of information according to Gabriel. He visits both sides of the fence, so to speak, concerning the views...
It’s Monday, August 5th, and our teacher just assigned a 3-page essay. She gives us one week to complete our essay and she hands out the rubric and explains what’s expected of us. It’s now Sunday, August 11, and I just opened my folder and realized I hadn’t begun any of my essay that is due tomorrow morning at 8am. As I shift back and forth through my notebook and laptop I begin to panic because my ideas aren’t coming together so, I turn to the internet to complete my paper. Every student has felt this last-minute rush to get everything completed in time, but this can be a death trap. This paper will discuss why plagiarism is bad and why academic honesty is important.
Pirated media refer to the illegal duplication of materials depicting important information as brought out in the original documentation. Pirated media creators are individuals dealing with illicit copying of first hand information and distributing it to the populace with the aim of earning a living. Reproducing documents are in a way moral, even though there is a degree of illegality in it. The works of pirated media encompass downloading of music, videos, and technological software of use when installing various programs on electronic devices. Most of the individuals bring out diverse motives of the entertainment sector and move ahead to download information for sale to the public. Individuals shoul...
Copyright, piracy, intellectual property and professional codes of ethics are critical subjects for computer and business professionals. This paper will first explain copyright laws and intellectual property. Second, an explanation concerning piracy will be submitted. Finally, a description of my own professional code of ethics will be presented.
The other issue related to the copyright law is piracy. Piracy is a term used to describe the distributing of work without permission from authors or copyright holders. This issue arises due to the emergence of peer-to-peer (...
The first reason why downloading and uploading copyrighted materials from the Internet should be legal is that downloading copyrighted materials positively affects the economy. The European Commission Joint Research Center reported that the profits of music companies would be 2% lower if uploading and downloading copyrighted materials were banned. However, music companies are able to acquire more profits despite illegal downloading because many people tend to purchase CDs or DVDs after watching or listening to copyrighted materials for free. Moreover, the research showed that people who download music illegally spent more money to buy music than people who did not download illegally. In addition, research conducted by the Swiss government informed that one-third of Swiss people downloaded copyrighted materials from the Internet because personal use of copyrighted materials is legal in Switzerland. Even though there is a fact that many people can download copyrighted materials from the Internet legally in Switzerland, the amount of money that people spend to buy copyrighted materials is not f...
Relying too heavily on other's work and failing to bring original thoughts into the one’s text.
Music piracy is a developing problem that it affects the music industry in many different ways including being responsible for the unemployment of 750,000 workers, as well as a loss of $2,5 billion; therefore, I want to explore ‘To what extent has music piracy affected the music industry market in the United States over the last 10 years?’