Vincen't Wong
Junior Member
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2015
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Afrikaans
- Home Country
- Taiwan
- Current Location
- Taiwan
practice makes perfect:lol::lol::lol:
Question:
You are a computer enthusiast and you often download music and movies. Write a letter to the editor of the Young Post commenting on the rights and wrongs of downloading entertainment from the Internet and whether you think people will continue to break the law when they risk being prosecuted. Sign your letter "Chris Wong".
Dear editor,
Recently, a person has been convicted because he uploaded many movies and music to the Internet and allowed others to download them freely. It raises my concerns about the current problem of infringing copyright through Internet. I am writing to express my view on the pros and cons of downloading entertainment from the websites and discuss whether people will continue to break the law to download these infringing products.
Many companies claimed that they lost much money because of the phenomenon of illegal download. Take manufacturing music CDs as an example, manufacturers need to spend plenty of money to hire singers, staffs and daily expenses. As a result, they hope that they can get enough profit by selling CDs to compensate for the daily expenses. In the presence of illegal downloading, customers no longer buy their CDs but download them form websites freely. Many small companies will thus lose so much profit and may go bankrupt. It is the disaster of all the companies.
Also, infringing copyright is showing no respect to the products and the law. Many manufacturers put all their efforts and time for the products. However, customers just steal their painstaking products freely. It is not fair to the manufacturers because that means their endeavor is in vain. Also, these unscrupulous people share the downloading links on every website to challenge the law. It is not a good phenomenon to our city’s future.
On the other hand, illegal downing form website can benefit many impoverished people. Some poor people cannot afford the expensive price of the products. For example, poor students usually do not have enough extra money to buy expensive examination past papers or exercises. However, they can download these learning materials through the website so that they could do more practices before the public examination free of charge. The method can thus increases their learning performance and even quality of lives.
Besides, some songs or movies became famous because of illegal downing. Thanks to the website, all people can have chance to download a wide variety of products and fully understand products’ quality before they buy it. A singer Bruno Mars was not popular in the past. However, more and more people had liked and listened his first song called grenade by illegal downloading and in YouTube so that a lot of people were willing to buy his CDs. Therefore, we can see that it is a tool to promote or advertise songs, movies and even singers and companies.
I believe that people will continue to break the law to downing songs or movies in websites. It is because the convicted person is the sharing one but not the downloading one. Illegal downing is still safe if we do not share any things on website and allow others to down them.
In addition, police have difficulty to find and catch the criminals because they are anonymous on the website. They also know how to hide themselves in the Internet like replacing IP addresses. Also, Almost all the people had experiences of illegal downing. Police is not possible to catch all of them.
There are rights and wrongs of illegal downloading. I hope that government could do more to stop the criminal incidents form the happening.
Yours faithfully,
Chris Wong
Question:
You are a computer enthusiast and you often download music and movies. Write a letter to the editor of the Young Post commenting on the rights and wrongs of downloading entertainment from the Internet and whether you think people will continue to break the law when they risk being prosecuted. Sign your letter "Chris Wong".
Dear editor,
Recently, a person has been convicted because he uploaded many movies and music to the Internet and allowed others to download them freely. It raises my concerns about the current problem of infringing copyright through Internet. I am writing to express my view on the pros and cons of downloading entertainment from the websites and discuss whether people will continue to break the law to download these infringing products.
Many companies claimed that they lost much money because of the phenomenon of illegal download. Take manufacturing music CDs as an example, manufacturers need to spend plenty of money to hire singers, staffs and daily expenses. As a result, they hope that they can get enough profit by selling CDs to compensate for the daily expenses. In the presence of illegal downloading, customers no longer buy their CDs but download them form websites freely. Many small companies will thus lose so much profit and may go bankrupt. It is the disaster of all the companies.
Also, infringing copyright is showing no respect to the products and the law. Many manufacturers put all their efforts and time for the products. However, customers just steal their painstaking products freely. It is not fair to the manufacturers because that means their endeavor is in vain. Also, these unscrupulous people share the downloading links on every website to challenge the law. It is not a good phenomenon to our city’s future.
On the other hand, illegal downing form website can benefit many impoverished people. Some poor people cannot afford the expensive price of the products. For example, poor students usually do not have enough extra money to buy expensive examination past papers or exercises. However, they can download these learning materials through the website so that they could do more practices before the public examination free of charge. The method can thus increases their learning performance and even quality of lives.
Besides, some songs or movies became famous because of illegal downing. Thanks to the website, all people can have chance to download a wide variety of products and fully understand products’ quality before they buy it. A singer Bruno Mars was not popular in the past. However, more and more people had liked and listened his first song called grenade by illegal downloading and in YouTube so that a lot of people were willing to buy his CDs. Therefore, we can see that it is a tool to promote or advertise songs, movies and even singers and companies.
I believe that people will continue to break the law to downing songs or movies in websites. It is because the convicted person is the sharing one but not the downloading one. Illegal downing is still safe if we do not share any things on website and allow others to down them.
In addition, police have difficulty to find and catch the criminals because they are anonymous on the website. They also know how to hide themselves in the Internet like replacing IP addresses. Also, Almost all the people had experiences of illegal downing. Police is not possible to catch all of them.
There are rights and wrongs of illegal downloading. I hope that government could do more to stop the criminal incidents form the happening.
Yours faithfully,
Chris Wong