When you download Lady Gaga's latest (and most spectacular) new album, Art Pop, to your iTunes library , you reduce and take a long look at your dedicated collection. You have collected almost 2,000 songs, 150 films and 200 books. From The Beatles to Deadmau3, from Miley Cyrus to Nirvana, you have every type of music you can imagine. The worst part is that you don't even listen to a tenth of it! You also collected all this media for an exorbitant price: absolutely nothing. After 2 and a half years of constant file sharing through Limewire, Frostwire, and Vuze, you've easily passed the four or five thousand dollar threshold of pirated media. Ultimately, your actions have a cost. When the federal government discovers your malicious activity, you're charged with thousands of dollars in copyright infringement fines, lawsuit settlements, and more years in federal prison than you could have ever imagined. “What did I do wrong?” Am I really hurting anyone? you ask yourself. Peer-to-peer file sharing is a nearly 15-year-old action that creates a connection between computers around the world to share all types of files and information. The creation of Napster in 1999, the drastic decline in music sales, anti-theft laws in the United States, and a growing understanding of the world of file sharing all contribute to a common idea: sharing files while downloading torrent is completely unethical because it takes money from users. media rights holders and abuse their rights to their own intellectual property, and is a brutal act of theft and dissent for the law (Old Napster). Napster was the first peer-to-peer file sharing service that was launched in 1999. that people could share the music files they had on the...... middle of paper ...... >.Rojas, Fabio. “the sales history of the recording industry, 1973-2010.” orgtheorynet. Np, July 13, 2011. Web. April 21, 2014. .Rojas, Fabio. the sales history of the recording industry, 1973-2010. 2011. The Sales History of the Recording Industry, 1973-2010, United States of America. http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/the-history-of-recording-industry-sales-1973-2010/. Internet. April 3, 2014. “Flight Overview.” » Find the law. Np, and Web. April 21, 2014. .Tyson, Jeff. "HowStuffWorks" How the old Napster worked. How things work. Np, and Web. April 21, 2014. “theft.” Merriam Webster. Merriam-Webster, nd Web. April 22. 2014. .