For and against - David Ortiz

Since the origin of the internet lots of things have been pirated and music it is not an exception. Furthermore, music is the most affected by piracy tallied with movies and series. This may be because of the excessive price companies charge customers; however, this also affects artist who try to be successful in their carriers by their own. So, as it is damaging artist, piracy is, in my opinion, something that must not be done.

If you pirate an album, the artist who has done it will not receive any money for creating all those tracks included in their album. Moreover, it may decrease an artist motivation as it might mean that their job and music doesn’t deserve any reward.

On the other hand, more artists are coming out every year and you may be a fan of dozens of singers and, thus, you may be unable to buy all the music every one of them publish. For example: you may not have enough money to buy two singles releasing next week because you have already purchased an album, all of those from different artist you like. Also, some companies exploit the artists they represent and shouldn’t be awarded with money for that so supporting the artist by hearing their music while not giving the company which exploits them any money is not bad at all.

To sum up, piracy may be, in some occasions, justified but in general it is something damaging the music industry and, lately, lots of “free” platforms such as Spotify and YouTube upload entire albums with the consent of the artist and give them money by the ads in the platform.