Illegal or Legal Downloads?

After some website opened a survey asking people questions about downloads or posts they found out that most people don't even have any idea on whats illegal or legal in the internet terms and policies. Almost half of the internet users though that it was legal to post or upload an authorized media commercial to a website which is actually not legal in any ways. 44% of the people who did the survey or about 2,500 people thought that it was legal to post or upload an authorized media commercial or did not know it was against the laws. 35% of the people who did the survey though that it was legal to copy a movie from a friend. Some more facts is that the survey in this year had more people agreeing that the copy rights policy needs to protect the industries which was 68% of the survey people which had increased from 55% in the year of 2010. Another important fact that this survey made is the use of the search engines in which 2/3 of the people use Google or Yahoo to find this copy righted material and have their entertainment, and about 1 out of 4 people use these engines to find movies, shows, etc. Doing the survey is really interesting and important for the internet because we get to know how much the users know and how much they don't know about the copy righted terms, to be honest even I don't know some of the copy right policies and we or I could have already done something that is illegal in the internet.

Major Concepts

• Most people don't know the terms and policies of the internet of the copy rights terms and services, so Wiggins created a survey for people to answer and got many interesting facts.
• One of the main interesting facts is that people don't know that it was illegal to post or upload an authorized media commercial to a website. Which was about 44% or 2,500 people.
• 68% of the people doing the survey thinks that the copy rights policy needs to be respected and protected which has been increasing from the past few years from only 55% of the people. 

Potential Strengths/Advantages

One main advantage that this author had is that everything he wrote was all facts which are based on the survey itself, in which I think is really interesting because it is raw information and it is information that is not modified or copied. I've never read a article that has been rich or raw in facts like this one before, so it's fun to read something like this again.

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

The disadvantage of a fact or a raw information article is that it lacks the authors thoughts about the topic, in which I think that reading others people opinions are always fun and good to check because we are able to decided if our opinion is against or with the one that the author has and we are able to rebut against the author which is really good to do also.

Discussion Questions

For this article I think that I'm for the good side because downloading movies, songs, tv-shows, etc., you are against the copy rights usage and you're decreasing the amount of the money earned of the movie/song which means that they worked really hard for that piece of art and you destroyed it by just illegally downloading it,so the producer will earn less money. On the bad side or the opposite hand, you're able to get these free movies without even paying for it which means that you are able to save your money and get the entertainment. Myself don't usually download any movies or songs online, what I do is by listening to it on YouTube which is completely free for me and they are able to earn money through views.

Hill, Amelia. "Internet Users Unaware of Illegal Downloading." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 21 Apr. 2013. Web. 22 Apr. 2013. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/22/internet-users-unaware-illegal-downloading>.