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IS MUSIC FILE-SHARING “UNETHICAL AND AMORAL”? – BBC NEWS
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For three decades David Lowery has been writing songs and performing with his two alternative rock bands Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven.
He is a vocal critic of that industry, and particularly how technology – from illegal downloading to new streaming services – has made it harder for artists to keep control of their work and to earn a living from it.
But when he spoke to the BBC at his home in Richmond, Virginia, Lowery also took aim at today’s younger generation who, he says, have come to expect to listen to music for free.
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Much of western Europe is under the most extreme red heat alerts – meaning there’s a potential risk to life.
France, Spain and Italy have been hardest hit by the heatwave so far.
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Tens of thousands of organisations have been caught out by a computer virus called WannaCry. The malicious software locks data away and demands a payment of up to $300 (£230) a time before it will restore scrambled files. In the UK, many hospitals fell victim and some health organisations diverted ambulances and cancelled non-essential services as they sought to contain and clean up the infection. Infections in more than 99 nations are being reported by security firms. It appears that the hardest hit are Russia and Spain.
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A year ago, artificial intelligence was being sold as something close to science fiction — a technology that could transform society, cure disease, even reshape the global economy.
Today, the tone is changing. The companies leading the revolution are racing to the stock market — chasing billions in investment — while quietly confronting a much harder reality: AI is expensive, unpredictable, and far from profitable.
At the same time, some of the very people building this technology are warning we may be going too fast — even calling for a global pause.
And beyond Silicon Valley, a different story is emerging: growing public anxiety, political backlash, and the rise of what some are calling anti-AI populism.
So is AI entering its most pivotal moment yet — caught between financial pressure, technological risk, and political resistance?
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Will AI lead to job losses and displace workers in the UK, or is it an opportunity for government and businesses to grasp?
Watch what the panel said on the BBC Question Time AI special, featuring AI pioneer Mo Gawdat, CEO of AI company Synthesia Victor Riparbelli, and Laura Gilbert, senior director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
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Invented in Moscow in 1984, a new Apple TV movie has charted how Tetris made its way out of the Soviet Union to become a global hit.
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@Tommomomomo
January 4, 2024 at 11:08 pm
I would never download anything without paying for it like. Unless its was something like the zero project where they give their own stuff away for free. I'd just feel like I was stealing from whoever made it.
@kdhfkjdgkjj
January 4, 2024 at 11:08 pm
Another university teacher, teaching compliance to the societal norms.
@SVAFnemesis
January 4, 2024 at 11:08 pm
I support anti piracy regulation because by doing that independent artists will have a lot better chance in sharing their music of royalty free. Why not let the "big shots" keep their music off the grid, it's not like they are really the only talents.
@smilersmiles
January 4, 2024 at 11:08 pm
Why on anything to do with anti piracy do they have to use the same damn font. You wouldn't steal the souls of children.
@Watrudoinsthap
January 4, 2024 at 11:08 pm
Piracy has been linked to increased profits for artists.
@magister343
January 4, 2024 at 11:08 pm
File sharing is indeed Amoral.
It is not however Immoral.
There is neither virtue nor vice involved.
It is not unethical.
Private property only makes sense for scarce goods. File sharing allows the information of digital files to become not meanly non-scarce, but anti-scarce.
It would be fine for a musician to refuse to share his music with anyone who did not first sign a personal contract not to share it with anyone else. There is no moral duty for those who never agreed to this not to share it or accept it being shared though.
If we consider copyright infringement theft, but want to take an old testament approach to punishing theft, then the only punishment could be to keep committing the crime. The proper punishment of theft is to pay back a multiple of what was taken, but a additional copy of non-scarce information is not worth much to someone who still has the original.
It makes more sense for musicians to ask their fans for donations than to try to control the flow of information.