Analysis Of Charles W. Moore's Is Music Piracy Stealing

The vibrations on our eardrums make the most interesting sounds. Some vibrations turn into voices, others animal vocals, but the most common is the vibrations of music .Observing our society one can find an individual “plugged” into some form of listening device; be it a cell phone, ipod, or old fashioned listening device. Music plays a large part of every individual's life. Whether it is composed for a movie, audience or transferred through earbuds, music has always been there. But at one point or another each and every one of us has had the urge to listen to instruments with the occasional vocals or vice versa, depending on his or her style of music. Except the process to listen is not how it seems. In Charles W. Moore’s essay “Is Music Piracy Stealing,” he attempts to explain if one downloads a song without paying the composer it is taking away from working an honest living. His argument is valid but because of his limited amount of information on this topic, Moore's essay tends to fade due to poor writing style, weak analogy, and scatter brained content.

Charles W. Moore is a well known contributing editor for Applelink, Low End Mac,

The Researchers of Butte College have looked into the usage of an analogy and the results aline with Moore’s strategies. When comparing, Researchers discovered, “it is said that all analogies... are useful for illustration only as far as they remain reasonable. Therefore, do not try to stretch an analogy too far... analogies can get out of control unless you know when to stop,”(1) In Charles W. Moore’s case the comparison of GM foodstuffs to copyright laws falls into this category. The explanation of GM foods is elaborated to a point of information overload. Moore started out strong then slowly faded into the facts and science of improvements of GM seeds. Had he remained focused on the law instead of scientific facts his argument would have remained