Sounds are constantly being masked by other sounds; you’re not hearing everything. My mom can come to my band concert and think she is just listening to me playing music but she’s not; it’s everyone. It’s more about the experience of playing together. Which leads me to the next question, would you argue that music is a social experience? I mean why go to a concert; for the music or social experience? I think we can all agree most singers are not as good live as they are on the radio. You typically go to the concert for the social experience. You know to have a good time with your friends, drink, and listen to the music you have similar interests in.

When someone leaks a song before it is released, it insights people to buy it. Why do people who are pirating music feel like they have a right to have 24/7 access to streamed music? Shouldn’t you be supporting the artists by buying their music? I mean that’s how they make their money. When you think about it that way, you sound like a terrible person. You could also argue that they have other ways of making money like performing concerts. But, information deserves to be free. Rather than arguing the moral pros and cons of “stealing music,” Stephen Witt in “How Music Got Free,” explains the range of motivations behind individuals who played a part in this. The most well-known example he describes is the North Carolina factory worker who became the world’s primary source for albums leaked ahead of their release dates for free because he thinks its cool. Witt calls this Patient Zero of music piracy.

With this, then comes the advancements in technology such as the mp3. Back then, they saw the mp3 as unburdened by knowledge. It was merely a near perfect way to compress audio files. And with this development of mp3’s, it eventually turned into apps on a smart phone to obtain music like Spotify, Apple Music, Itunes, etc. It still gave individuals the opportunity to leak a song before the album was even released. Is this immoral?

So, does the technology of music make it disposable? Yes it does. If you download a song on your playlist on your phone, you can delete it. If you were to have a CD like back in the day, you would have to find someone to buy it off of you. Now it is just so easy to go and delete.