Criteria C

Criteria C:
There are several impacts that arise with the issue of illegal downloading. The music industry suffers severely because less and less people end up buying CDs and an increase in numbers of people download illegally. When a large number of people download music illegally and this number grows bigger each day this causes a great change in the music industry, because it causes them to have to come up with a new ways to make profits.
The stakeholders affected by illegal downloads are the recording artists, the musicians, recording companies, and the record stores. While illegal downloading is still occurring they cannot be making the profit they could be making. The social impacts are the acceptance of downloading. People are not seeing it as a criminal offense but a civil offense and this is why people are not taking it as a matter of great importance. Downloading could be legal if it is done the right way from iTunes or Amazon. If it is downloaded without being paid the right amount or not paying at all from websites such as Bit torrent or Napster then it is an illegal act.
Though many people enjoy the ability to download music when they want, there is also a great fear of downloading viruses along with the music. Spyware, which is stored on the computer and puts out information without the computer owner knowing it, is also another concern among people who regularly download. These things act as deterrents to keep the numbers from increasing much quicker than they could.