Sound: #25: Am I a music pirate? It's hard to know...

Burning music onto a CD is easy and painless. It doesn't take much time to do it, and before long you don't even think about it when you're doing it.



Do I still use CD's? Only when I am in the car listening to music, but other than that at home I use my computer while I am online and doing homework.



I would have to say that musicians benefit more from the strict copyright protections online because this way they actually get compensated for the work they put in. If the songs were free for everyone and there was no restriction as to who can get to them, as a whole, musicians would not get any benefits out of it. I know, thinking that they could do without a few million dollars here and there doesn't bother us. But if you think that all of these musicians were to lose interest in making music because they didn't get paid for it, they might have to look for other means of earning an income. That means they would end up having regular jobs, and any future musician might never come to the spotlight and deprive the world of their songs.