Media Piracy Essay

Pirate bay, Torrent, Youtube to MP3. They probably sound quite familiar to you. As technology develops over time, the act of media piracy is becoming more and more frequent than it should be. As someone who experienced media piracy through my peers and personal experiences, I would like to tackle on the subject: media piracy. First of all, in order to learn about the concept of media piracy, it is important to learn what it is in the first place. Media Piracy is the act of taking someone else’s work that’s on the virtual network without paying for it. It’s often regarded as something minor just because of the fact that software, games, and movies are not physical. Also, pirated versions of media are very accessible nowadays due to the fact

It indirectly helps the producers out without them having to pay anything.
For example, media piracy has a huge impact on gaming industries by letting gamers “try” out the game before purchasing them. Sites like skidrow games.net or newtorrentgame.com provide the gamers with full, complete games without any price and their intended purpose is to advertise the games out so that gamers can decide whether if they want to actually pay for the game or not. While these sites had a great impact on helping small companies known to the public, at the end of the day, it’s still a crime.
Even regarding the positive impact of media piracy, It’s quite obvious that negative effect of piracy tops over positive effect of piracy. It still hurts the producers since people aren’t paying money, which means less financial support for the companies. It is estimated that around 10~12 billion dollars worth of software are pirated each year, and that money could have supported software developers tremendously.
So why should we avoid media piracy? Well, first and foremost it’s illegal and it is common sense to not get involved with illegal acts since there’s usually a huge consequence that follows

A theft. Even if it happens virtually, software are clearly someone’s creation that they worked for a long time in order to provide their audiences with contents that can either help us out or entertain us.
But overall, we, as consumers have to understand and realize the fact that people put in tremendous work and effort to make those for us. Thus, I personally believe that avoiding piracy shouldn’t be much about the money or law, but should rather be about
Respecting and supporting the developers, artists, and workers because we watch and use those media since we love them. If we keep pirating over and over again until it gets out of hand in the near future, they won’t be able to provide us with the content that we love and enjoy.
So what can we do as a consumer of media? As I’ve mentioned in this presentation, it is important to learn and realize the concept of media piracy in the first place. After we are able to identify pirated materials as an individual, then we can put it into an action by intentionally avoiding those