MP3 downloading should be illegal

"Worldwide financial losses from piracy are immense , $ 13 billion lost per year bythe computer software industry ; $2.5 billion lost per year by the movie industry, and $4.1 billion lost per year by the music industry"; (Hatcher, 1). Astonishingly, one of the most commonly used piracy schemes derives from a computer file format. Mp3's, alsoknown as MPEG-1 Audio layer-3, are highly compressed, CD-quality sound files that have become the most commonly used unofficial file format, which are downloadable from the Internet (www.Christian-witness.org, 1). Mp3 files may contain several types of audio and video , including music, computer software, and movies (Rosenbaum, 2).

There is almost no music site that one may goto where an Mp3 of some sort is offered,hence the Internet allows users to download songs in a matter of minutes without paying any money (Rosenbaum, 1). Over the past years, both the music and movie industry along with major software developers have become increasing...