MEDIA PIRACYIT’S ALL A CRIME
Creators:
Dajane Martin
Paige Boose
Tori Slater
Brittany Davies
DAJANE MARTIN
THE QUESTION ABOUT PIRACY
What negative affects has media piracy had on the American
society?
- One of the things I did to narrow the question I came up with
was to keep my question geared towards a specific area which
is America. Also instead of just saying effects, because there
could be negative and positive affects I just focused on the
negative part of piracy. My argument is basically stating that
even though many people
MY POINT
I think the most important point/argument that I
am trying to make is that media piracy is not
something that only affects the criminals who do it.
It also affects the people who don’t do because the
prices of the media rises and someone that they
know may also get them in trouble. So media piracy
affects the criminals and the producers but also
innocent people. This is a whole society that media
piracy is affecting.
THE SUPPORT BOOKS
Peer to Peer and the music industry: The
criminalization of sharing. Cite: David, Matthew.
Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The
Criminalization of Sharing. Los Angeles: SAGE,
2010. Print.
Pop song piracy: Disobedient music distribution
since 1929. Cite: Kernfeld, Barry Dean. Pop Song
Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution Since 1929.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Print
THE SUPPORT ARTICLES
Scholarly Article: Jailhouse Frocks: Locating the
Public Interest in Policing Counterfeit Luxury
Fashion Goods British Journal of Criminology
November 1, 2010 50: 1094-1116
Popular Article: Music piracy stunting digital music
revenue: industry exec. Copyright 2012 The
Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material
may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.
THE SUPPORT WEBSITE
Galileo. Georgia Library Learning Online. 15
september 1995
<http://www.galileo.usg.edu/scholar/westga/subjects
/?Welcome>
LETS EVALUATE
The sources I used are all credible because they
are either from reliable sources like Galileo which is
a online Georgia library for GA or are all written by
authors that have good rating or that are professors,
researchers, or are in other form of a high
profession.
PAIGE BOOSE
RESEARCH QUESTION
Are the consequences too heavy when one commits the
act of piracy on media?
I chose this research question after my group and I talked
over multiple topics we could pull from our over all topic of
Piracy and I was interested in learning about the
consequences that come with being caught stealing media.
I narrowed my question down from asking about
consequences in general to dealing with only consequences
being too heavy while also making my question arguable at
the same time.
ARGUMENT?
My argument is that consequences seem to vary from being too
light or too heavy. I think that consequences are too heavy at
times when stealing media. I say this because there are many
websites circulating through the internet and many people think
that since there is a website for piracy than it must be okay. We
forget that stealing media is just like stealing a purse from a
department store. It is illegal and many will be caught. I think
that more advertisements should be presented so this way we will
be more educated with the act of piracy.
RESEARCH SOURCES
From my five sources I think that three of them will be very
sufficient towards my research. My first source is a book called,
Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of
Sharing. Second source is an article called, Purchase or Pirate:
A Model of Consumer Intellectual Property Theft. Third source
is my second article choice called, Digital Piracy: Causes,
Consequences and Strategic Responses.
All of these sources will back up my position because they all
have to deal with consequences and why one should purchase
media and not pirate.
Information is also given to what factors lead to someone
committing the act of piracy.
EVALUATION
My sources are credible after I looked over who
was the author or authors and many were college
professors and even sources were cited within my
sources.
I knew my sources would be relevant to my
research because they all have information focusing
mainly on what leads to piracy, consequences and
even laws that deal with piracy and how they are
used when someone has been caught.
TORI SLATER
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF PIRACY ON ARTIST AND THEIR
LABEL?
I narrowed my question by focusing
on artist and their label, and did some
presearching.
MY ARGUMENT
Piracy on music has major effects on artist and
their label?
THE RESOURCES
The book I used gets more in depth with music
piracy
The scholarly article is helpful because its written
by experts
The website helps me because its unbiased and
relevant
BRITTANY DAVIES
MY RESEARCH QUESTION
Should music piracy be legalized? I came up with my question by first doing some pre searching. I
search in Google key terms like “music piracy problems” to get a general idea about my topic.
The first variation of my question was: what are the negative effects of piracy. This question was way too broad and had no clear room for opinions.
I did some more pre searching and saw an article about legalizing music piracy
I then formulated the question: Should music piracy be legalized? This is a good question because it is not too broad nor too narrow There are two opposing sides for an argument There is more than enough information which I can find based on
this question
POSITION/ THESIS
I believe that music piracy should not
be legalized because it promotes
stealing in such a free manner. Piracy
in the music industry has lead to
problems within the economy as well as
money loss for artist. Stealing is still a
crime and those guilty should be held
accountable.
ARGUMENT
Money loss for artist
Promotes stealing
Negative effects on the economy
I answered my research question by finding
evidence to back up my thesis statement.
Within my sources I found information about
how piracy within the music industry has had
negative effects on the US economy
YOUR RESEARCH
Article: It won’t happen to me: An assessment of optimism bias
in music piracy, written by Ankur Nandedkar and Vishal Midha.
This academic article is about how piracy continues to be a threat
to the global economy. Results of structural equation modeling
using a sample of 219 college students provide evidence that
individuals having an optimism bias engage in piracy
CNN Money- This site is helpful because it includes graphs and
statistics which I really need for my research.
EVALUATION PROCESS
factual because they are written by journalist and experts.
information is often presented in a way which
in unbiased. With the scholarly article, I can
trust that that the information is reliable
because it is often written by a professor
or scholar in that particular field.