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may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or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.