Downloading music or films without paying is as much of a crime as

stealing from a shop.

In recent years the new communication technologies, including

internet, have completely changed the cultural industry. Nowadays
we can produce music, videos, films and any kind of art at home
and we can share data folders with anybody in almost everywhere
around the world. In my opinion that data bank shared by members
of a virtual community it’s a new cultural form that has broken
olds rules, so it supposes others protocols of production,
circulation and consumption. I believe that only in an old-
fashioned thinking can be possible compare downloading music or
film with steal a shop.

Indeed, there are copyrights and property rights that should be

protected. But in most cases this protections only benefit the
greatest companies that monopolises the editorial, films or music
markets. For instance, for many independents producers one of the
best forms of announces a song, a video work or any other
independent production is to share its on socials networks. In
addition, there are a lot of groups of internet usurious who
campaigns for copyleft.

We can also think in cultural productions as common wealth.

Personally I think that copyleft guarantees the free access to
this common wealth whereas punishing downloading music, films,
literature or software is not.

Copyleft is the practice of “offering people the right to freely

distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the
stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works
down the line”. Moreover, this kind of practice is considered
protective because is a form of licensing that maintain the author
conditions for works like computer software, documents, art,
music, video. There aren’t direct economic benefits, but there are
a lot of other benefit for educational institutions, ONG’s,
independent musicians, filmmakers and groups of arts.

To sum up, I believe that downloading music, films, videos, images

or others kind of data is not a crime. In contrast, to share
music, films and art productions on internet is a free, protective
and expansive form of culture.