Legal Restrictions on Music and Video Downloads: A Global Perspective

This essay explores the legal restrictions imposed on downloading music and videos, emphasizing the importance of adhering to copyright laws in a digital age. While entertainment like music, videos, and movies are widely accessible through the internet, illegal downloading from pirated sites infringes upon these rights, leading governments worldwide to impose strict regulations. Although these measures aim to curb piracy and protect creators' rights, they also impact individuals who utilize such content for legitimate purposes but face high costs when accessing original sources. The essay argues that while protecting intellectual property is crucial, legal frameworks should differentiate between illegal activities and ethical use by professionals relying on digital resources for their work. There's a call for more nuanced regulations that balance protection with accessibility, ensuring creators are compensated without unduly restricting access to those who need it for legitimate purposes.

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“Legal Restrictions on Downloading Music and Videos”
Internet has provided innumerable advantages to the society. The major advantages of
Internet include presence of information in every aspect and every field, downloading several
files of music, videos, movies, educational documents and many more (Bechle, 2014). However,
in spite of providing such tremendous advantages, Internet is often considered as one of the
major problems in modern technological world. The files of music, videos and movies are
restricted by government in many countries.
Entertainment is important for all generations in modern world. It removes the monotony
in life. The common types of entertainment include music, videos, and movies. These are mostly
provided by the Internet. Internet is one of the most important boons that technology has
provided to the world. Individuals can download these entertainment files easily from the
Internet (Lertwachara & Ayanso, 2015). However, these benefits are often exploited by certain
number of people, who have wrong intentions. Illegal acts are involved due to this benefit.
Moreover, these are downloaded from pirated sites. This involves in copyright policies. For this
particular reason, downloading music and videos are legally restricted in almost all countries.
The government has put a ban on the limits of downloading music, videos and movies and this
has invited various problems for the modern generation. They are unable to download any more
files from the Internet. The government is not wrong in their own terms. It is illegal to download
any file from copyright and pirated websites. As per the copyright law, any type of obtaining and
distribution of a work that is copyrighted without any type of permission from the copyright
holder is absolutely illegal (Waelbroeck, 2013). The main problem has occurred for those
individuals, who do not have any kind of wrong intentions. Even these people are suffering due
to these legal restrictions. The people, who do their works from these downloaded files of music

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and videos, are suffering extremely. The government is allowing only those people, who are
downloading from non pirated web sites. The files that are downloaded from original sites are
often much expensive and not affordable for everyone (Hansen & Walden, 2013). The normal
people are not unable to download these files. The only way left for them is the copyrighted
website. They are bound to download the files from the copyrighted websites for the sake of their
job. These types of legal restrictions have created major problems for these innocent people.
These legal restrictions and limitations should be abolished on an immediate basis. Rather there
should be restrictions that illegal and unethical files should not be downloaded from the Internet.
The restrictions should be abolished without failure (Lertwachara & Ayanso, 2015). There
should be a legal site that would allow downloading all types of ethical and legal files of music
and videos from the Internet.
Therefore, from the above discussion it can be concluded that Internet is one of the most
important boons that technology has provided to the world. All types of files can be downloaded
from Internet easily. However, there are certain people who download several files from the
illegal and copyrighted websites. There are restrictions that are set legally on the downloading of
music and videos. All people do not download such files with wrong intentions and rather they
do so for their job purpose. These restrictions should be abolished on an immediate basis.

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References
Bechle, T. (2014). eMusic-Legal issues concerning downloading music over the
Internet (Doctoral dissertation, University of Cape Town).
Hansen, J. M., & Walden, E. (2013). The role of restrictiveness of use in determining ethical and
legal awareness of unauthorized file sharing.
Lertwachara, K., & Ayanso, A. (2015). Online Digital Music Piracy: Legal and Managerial
Perspectives.
Waelbroeck, P. (2013). Digital music: economic perspectives.