Is it legal to copy music onto your computer? -Review-

It is no doubt that most of music fans, downloading the songs of their favorite artists from the Internet rather than spending their money to buy the albums. I, myself admit that I also downloaded the songs from Ares, an application that could find thousands of songs just in one click. It is much easier and time-saving as well as cheap too. Back in my country, the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) software such as Ares, LimeWire, Kazaa or even Torrent is not a big deal, albeit it is clearly wrong and not a good action to do. There is no action taken by the government that making us downloading the songs or movies or videos fearlessly. However, in the United States, an issue arises lately these days, that some people questioning that is it legal to copy music onto our computer? According to the article by Marc Fisher, there was a case in which, a man who kept a collection of more or less 2000 music recordings on his computer is said to do “unauthorized copies” of copyrighted recordings even though he legally purchased a CD transfer all the music into his computer. The guy is being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). RIAA claimed that personal copy of the copyrighted products on our computer is a violation. Based on my personal opinion of this issue, I do not see what the purposes of having music player devices such as MP3 players or iPods are, because RIAA said that it is illegal to copy the music on the computer. Logically, we have to use the computers to transfer the songs into the music player devices. The concept here is pretty much the same because we copy the songs from the albums to the music player and this is said to be illegal. Therefore, everyone that owns music player have to be sued because they copied the copyrighted music illegally. What do you think about it?