Piracy podcasting

While pod casting, our group used Garageband. Garageband gave us the tools that were necessary to create our podcast. It provided us with a variety of jingles and music to choose from. We were able to use these features legally because when you purchase Garageband your also purchasing the right to use the features (music.. etc). We used the website Picnik to edit the picture that we took for our album cover of our podcast. We abide by all of the copyright laws because obviously that's what the podcast is about. We now know the consequences of copyright infringement and try to do everything possible to avoid it.

Before I learned about copyright infringement, I thought that downloading music illegally online was no big deal. After finding out how artists felt about it, my opinion completely changed. I definitely agree with the statement that downloading music illegally is wrong. It is stealing! Copyright laws should exist because if they didn't, people would never purchase music. People would constantly download without paying for the music and artists wouldn't make any money.

Copyright infringement is very prevalent in the society today because many people don't know about the laws. Copyright infringement and the consequences need to be greater publicized! Another reason why copyright infringement is prevalent is because so many people get away with it everyday. There needs to be harsher punishments so that copyright infringement gets put to an end. If someone was to use my podcast or graphic without my permission, I would be very upset! That is someone getting credit for all my hard work. Click here to listen to our podcast!