The Right to Download Music -persuasive essay to convince it's okay to download music, includes lots of statistics

In September of 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed 261 lawsuits against computer users. This was the beginning of the music industry's strike back. For years they said they were losing money due to people such as these, who allegedly infringe on copyright laws by downloading media from the Internet. However, the industry's plan to stop such action struck back. News spread and the word got out of such cases as the grandmother in …

…not uploading. This way, shared music can be controlled and credit is given where credit is due. There is also a small fee included so money is not lost. In Europe, such methods are highly supported and in 2003, roughly three million songs were downloaded from OD2 alone (Reuters). Downloading music has become a part of everyday life for many people, young and old alike, and to attempt to remove this in all forms is absurd.