Downloading Music

Downloading music for free on the internet is something that has greatly affected the music industry. After years of simply trying to deter people from illegally downloading music by posting warnings, and letting the general public know of the harm that is caused by stealing music. The music industry began to fight back by forming lawsuits against the people they were able to catch stealing music.
However, the music industry may not be targeting the right individuals in their fight against piracy. Evidence of this would be an ongoing lawsuit between a sixteen year old boy and five major record labels. The alleged privacy occurred nearly five years ago when the boy was eleven years old. To this young man and his families credit they are not just rolling over and settling they are fighting back with a countersuit, that attacks all the major problems of record companies trying to come after individuals and how they can disseminate who actually illegally downloaded music, and who was abiding by the vague laws.
In the countersuit they claim that there were not adequate warnings about downloading music, and that the record industry is trying to defraud the courts of America with its eighteen thousand frivolous lawsuits that are currently clogging up the federal court system. It will be interesting to see how this case plays out and what reproductions it will have for the future of piracy law and lawsuits.