For and against essay - Lluís Vaz

Buying or pirating music is a problem recently created by the innovation done by web pages such as Spotify or Youtube. Those pages, provide a lot of opportunities to the user of downloading and listen to their favourite musicians for free. But, is this downloading of music profitable to the author of it?

Despite all the critics that we have been listening from the news since the beginning of free downloads, some experts explain that authors take profit from the pirates of music. In their opinion, not paying for music has given the opportunity to have more globalized music. That globalization helps people to listen to music that in case there have to pay they will not listen to it, using pirate platforms to make the people aware of the music are they making. Leveraging that situation, authors can benefit from free listens if they are able to involve people in their activities, such as concerts or if they are able to create a good marketing campaign to get the public known of the products that they are selling, such as merchandising and, for sure, their original album.

Although some authors think that this system could be profitable, the majority of them think that this new system affects directly to little and medium groups of music, which are not able to live from the music they made and must balance their usual job and music creation. Some starters of music, are complaining because nowadays living only from music having a small number of listeners is impossible. This fact is caused by a not earn of money only by some people listen to your music, because if you don't have the ability to make a big concert or selling merch, you won't receive any kind of money for your job.

In my opinion, I think that pirating music is a good fact. Not paying for listening to music, gives the opportunity to lots of people to get known of your music, to enjoy it and to share it with others, what can be really profitable for the author of that music. One time that new music in more and more popular, it's the time on taking benefits by offering new things to your listeners, like enjoying your voice in a concert on wear your t-shirt on their trip to the beach!