It is not illegal to share food or clothes or recipes, why should it be illegal to share software?
Sharing recipies and making an exact replica of a dress you love may seem no different to sharing software. However, when a recipe is used to make a cake, the orginial cake is not made, but a copy. The same applies in the creation of the same clothing item. However, when software is shared, the original code is taken and the original software is illegally shared.
Music is illegally purchased every day, all over the world. There are now several existing programs that allow music to be illegally copied. Interestingly, David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard predict that in the future, music will be much like water and electricity in the way that it will become such a necessity that there will be a small monthly fee on top of other house hold costs that will provide home owners with unlimited access to music (Kusek, D and Leonhard, G 2005, 'The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution', Journal of High Technology Law, p. 193)
The music industry is already suffering due to the illegal purchasing of music and fear that this prediction for the not-so-distant future will only decline sales even more.
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